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Yt- VIS 7"" ylrtx T ft- A y State Library VOL. IX.-NJ. LINCOLNTON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, HAY 10. 19)5. ONE DOLLAR PES YE At . - mm" '" CLOSING EXERCISES CROUSE SCHOOL Splendid Program of This Successful School, Beginning Tuesday and Clos ing Next Friday Sermon by Dr. Vinei of Charlotte. , The commencement exercises of the Crouse High School will be held this week, beginning Tuesday and lasting - through Friday. A splendid program has been prepared and a large crowd is expected to be present. There are no graduates in regular course this year, the eleventh grade having been added for next year, and there will be eight pupils in this grade, Misses Jennie Warlick, Prue Heafner, Emma Clark, and Musters Claud War lick, Lee Beattie, Lawrence Carpenter, . Arnel Heafner, Rodney Stover. Miss Prue Heafner graduates in music this session. The faculty is composed of Prof. A. S. Ballard, principal, Misses Clara Smyre, Lulu Beam, Bessie Heafner. The enrollment is 165 pupils. The program for the entire commence ment follows: Thursday, May 13th. 1915, 8:00 p. m. . Exercises liy School. 11 a. m. Sermon by Dr. W. M. Vines, of Charlotte, Chorus, Red, White and Blue By School. Drill Primary and Intermediate Grades. Chorus I'm Afraid of the Big, Big, Moon. Piano Rough Riders Beulah and Connie Heafner. Drill Garland Girls Girls. Vocal Duet Nellie Hoover and Ma zel Carpenter. Piano duet, Danse Rustique Miss Prue Heafner and Mazel Carpenter. Operetta Flower Nymphs Surprise Primary and Intermediate Grades. Wednesday, May 12th, 1915, 8. m. . Graduating Recital, Miss Prue Heafner Music. Piano, Fey Follet, Durand de Grav Miss Prue Heafner. Vocal duet, The Thrush, Rich Ru by and Yates Heafner. Piano, Rondo Canriccioso, Mendel ssohn Miss Prue Heafner. Reading, The Little Boy that was Scaret O'Dying Miss Nell Rudisill. Piano, Davenport Medley, Bessie Heafner Miss Prue Heafner. Vocal Solo, Lillies, Johns Ruby Heafner. Instrumental duet, William Tell, Rossini Miss Prue Heafner and Mrs. Ballard. Reading, After whiles, Riley Miss Nell Rudisill. . Piano, Magic Fire.Wagner Miss Prue Heafner. Tuesday, May 11th, 1915. 8:00 p. ra Contest and Recital by Music Class. Polonase, Flagler Miss Alma Hoo ver. Gentle Shepherdness, Engleman Miss Ruth Heafner. Valse Rustique, Kern Miss Mazel Carpenter. . . Alia Tarantella, Poldinl Miss Nel lie Hoover. Love's Response, Morrison Connie Heafner. Fifth Nocturne, Leybach Miss Beu lah Heafner. Rondo Canriccioso, Mendelsshon Miss Prue Heafner. .. Recital. Vocal Trio, Tis Spring, Christian! Mr. and Mrs. Ballard, Miss Beam. . Military March, Christini, Misses Ruth Heafner and Nellie Hoover. Feathered Songstress. Misses Adelyne McClurd and Lillian Heafner. Allegretto, Altman Jessie and Har len Heafner. Song, A. B. O Avis and Winnie Sue Sullivan. Second Valse, Godard Connie and Ruth Heafner. t Rending, Marian's Mo'nin Miss Jen nie Warlick. Marche Hongroise, Kowalshi Miss es Joyce and Mable Rudisill. , . Napoli, Parker Misses Beulah Heafner and Alma Hoover. Friday, May 14th, 1915, 11:00 a. m. Literary Address, Prof. N. W. Wal ker. 2:30 p. m., Declamation Contest and Awarding of Medals and Prizes. Death Bed of Benedict Arnold, i Claud Warlick. - Mice at Play Mazel Carpenter. My Country! My Mother! My God, John Stroup. Gipsy Flower Girl Jennie Warlick. 8:00 p. m. Play. Song, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground. Play, Face at the Window, Four Boys, Four Girls. ,-. Cast of characters: Reginald Spofford One of New York's 400. Chester La Grange alias Second Story Bill Of Unsavory Reputation. Mose Johnson Who Refuses to Work. Henry Smart wood A Detective. Vera Stanley Wronged but For giving. Mrs. Spofford Mother of Regi nald Lillian Stanhope Her Niece. Dinah A Domestic A Number of Villagers, etc. Synopsis. ........ Act I. The unprotected home. The . rejected suitor. The Salvation Army man. The letter. The secret of a life. The--attempted robbery. The recogni tion. The fight against odds. Regi nald to the rescue. Act II. Continued persecution. The " refusal. The reformed burglar. The heiress. Plot and counter plot The photograph. Reunited school girls. Courting under difficulties. The dis covery. The robbery. The interrupted murder of the wrong party. "The Face at the Window." Act III. The lonely rocky pass. Raking up old occurences. Seeing things in new light. The explanation The slippery rocks. The clandestine meeting. The rejected proposal. The use of force. The battle on the rocks. The right wins. "Free at last." A law passed by the Florida Legis lature effective October 1, prohibits - vAkcv, in svaicu packages of not less than hair pmt uciihib iu imukbb it uniawiui ior liquor to be drunk on premises where it is sold. This would prevent the serving of drinks in hotels, rests a- rants and dubs. BIG STEAMER LUSITANIA SUNK BY TORPEDO Steamer Carrying Nearly 2,000 Pas sengers Is Sent To Bottom Many Prominent Americans Among Pas senger List Washington Officials Says Incident Is Gravest Faced Since Beginning of War Passen gers Had Been Warned Not To Sail On Ship. London, May 7. The Cunard liner Lusitania, which sailed out of New York last Saturday with more than 2,000 persons aboard, lies at the bot tom of the ocean off the Irish coast. She was sunk by a German subma rine, which sent two torpedoes crash ing into her side while the passeng ers were at luncheon. A ship's steward, who landed with others at Queenstown, gave it as his opinion that 900 persons were lost. The.-e were dead and wounded among those brought ashore; some since have died. But not a name of rescued or lost, or dead or injured, has been listed officially . The Lusitania was steaming along about 10 miles off Old Head Kinsale on the last leg of her voyage to Liv erpool when about 2 o'clock in the af ternoon a submarine suddenly appear ed and so far as all reports go, fired two torpedoes with warning at the steamer. One struck her near the bows and the other in the engine room. The powerful agents of destruction tore through the vessel's side, caus ing terrific explosions. Almost im mediately great volumes of water poured through the openings and the Lusiania listed. Boats which were already swung out on the davits were dropped over board and were speedily filled with passengers who had been appalled by the desperate attack. A wireless call for help was sent out, and immediately rescue boats of all kinds were sent both from the neighboring' points along the coast and Queenstown. Within 15 minutes, as one survivor estimated, and certainly within half an hour, the Lusitania had disappear ed. Where Great Britain's fastest mer chant vessel went down Old Head Kinsale is a landmark that has brought to joy many travelers as it always has stood as the sign from shore that the perils of the voyage across the Atlantic were at an end. The line whose boast that it has never lost a passenger in the Atlantic service has lost the chip thct dodged the lurking enemy off Nantucket Light the day after w'ar was declared and later startled the world by fly ing the Stars and Stripes. New York. May 7. The first news ' of the torpedoing and sinking of the Cunard liner Lusitania came shortly after 1 p. m. today. The publication oi the news created tremenduous excite ment in Wall Street and a violent de cline followed in both the stock and cotton markets. Under an advance of greatest volume during the last hour of trading stocks fell from 8 to 30 points and cotton $2.50 a bole. The Lusitania, with a total of 1,251 passengers aboard, of whom 188 were Americans, and with a crew of 816, sailed from here last Saturday in the face of a warning published on the day of her departure by tho Ger man Embassy, which asserted that travelers intending to embark on British shiDS did so at the risk of the ship's being destroyed in accord ance with the German war zone do cree. - This warning published as an ad vertisement, did not result in the can cellation of a single passage ,nor did anonymous notes of warning suid to have been received by some passen gers jusi oeiore me Dig uner ion nor pier, deter any one from sailing. Reports from Washington that it was privately known in official quar ters that the Lusitiania was to be tor pedoed at the first opportunity gave color to the opinion expressed in ship ping circles tonight that the Embas sy's warning was intended to apply particularly to the Lusitania. "Travelers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage," read the ad vertisement, "are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war in cludes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that in accordance with formaly notice given by the Imperil Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain or any of her Al lies are liable to destruction in those waters, and that travelers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Brit ain or her Allies do so at their own risk.' This afternoon and tonight anxious friends of the Lunitinin'a passengers beseiged the Cunard offices and the scene recalled those when the Titanic sank three years ago. Among the well known passengers on the Lusitinia' are Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt Charles T. Bowering of New York head of the firm of Bow ering Brothers, Alexander Campbell, general manager for John Dewar k Sons, London; Elbert Hubard, pub lisher; D. A. Thomas, the wealthy Welsh cop I operator and his daugh ter, Lady Mackworth, an English suf fragette, and the Rev. Basil W. Maturin, Oxford, England. Mr. Vanderbilt was one of those credited with receiving anonymous letters of warning. All deprecated the possibility of danger to the ship and Charles P. Sumner, general agent of the line announced at the time that the Lusitania's speed of 25 knots made her immune from submarine attacks. . The Lusitania's cargo was valued at about $75T,000 and contained a large quantity of war supplies. The ship's manifest included 280, 000 pounds of brass and copper wire, $66,000 worth of military goods, and 5,471 cases of ammunition valued at $200,024, all of which was contraband of war. The ship itself, Cunard officials said today, was covered by $5,000,000 war risk insurance. The news created perhaps the greatest consternation in exporting circles where the question arose as to the probable course of the steam ship companies in maintaining future schedules. There wa3 no cancellations an nounced today and despite the fact that the Lusitania was torpedoed, the Cunard Line permitted the Anchor liner TranHylvania to anil tonight for Liverpool. Out of her 879 passengers only 12 cancelled their passage. The Lusitania is the third big trans-Atlantic liner lost since the war started. The others were the White Star liner Oceanic, wrecked off the coast of Scotland, September 8, last, and the North-Germnn-Llyod steam er Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, con verted into a German auxilliary crui ser, which was sunk by the British cruiser Highflyer August 27. Washington, May 7. Destruction of the British liner Lusitania with the loss of many lives shocked officials of the United States government and spread profound grief in the national capital. Although it was not known how many, if any, of those lost were Am ericans, the view was general that the most serious situation confronted the American government since the out break of the war in Europe. The warning of the United States that Germany would be held to a strict accountability" for the loss of "Amer ican lives,"iirespective of whether they were aboard belligerent or neu tral vessels when atacked, focused at tention on the White House where President Wilson until late in the night read the dispatches with grave inter est. The President made no comment Officials said facts and circumstan ces would have to be obtained by care ful investigation during the next few days before any announcement could be made by the American government. The disposition among high officials was not to take hasty action, but to await the British admiralty's report and results of the investigation of Ambassador Page. Although Congress is not in session Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee and other mem bers of the committe are now in the city. It is expected they will be con sulted by President Wilson before he decides on the policy to be pursued by the united states. German Submarine Warfare. The Lusitania is the twenty-ninth vessel to be sunk or damaged in the first week of May in the German war zone about the British Isles. Most of these vessels were torped oed by German submarine although in some cases it has not been estab lished whether the damage was in flicted by mines or underwater boats. During the last fortnight, German submarines have carried on the most active campaigns of any time since the war began. ish trawlers. 1 here were four Brit ish trwalers. There weer four Brit ish and one French merchantmen in the list. The other vessels of neutral nations. One of them was the American stea mer Gulflight, which was torpedoed off Scilly Islands May 1, with the loss of three lives. There were three Nor wegian, two Swedish and one Danish merchant vessels in this number. Establishment of the German war zone was decreed on February 4 to take effect on February 18. The Ger man government's decree, defined the war zone as including "all the waters surrounding Great Britain and Ire land, including the entire English channel," although stating specifical ly thut shipping north of the Shetland islands, in the eastern area of the North sea and in a strip 30 miles alonsr the Netherlands coast would not be imperiled. The Lusitania, therefore. was in the war zone when sunk. - In the war zone decree, the German government announced its intention "to endeavor to destroy every enemy merchant ship found in this area of war,'" stating that this section had been made necessary by the conduct of Great Britain in carrying - on a "mercantile warfare against Germany in a way that defied all the principles of international law." The German admiralty is renorted to have sent newly constructed subma rines oi large size and nigh speed for the present campaign. Few de tails are available as to the specifica tions of these vessels. It is said they are able to carry supplies for three months, enabling them to remain out for that length of time putting into a port or having recourse to a parent ship. The U-28, one of the pewerful Ger man submarines, which snnk the Brit ish teamer Falaba off St George's channel, March 28, with the loss of 111 lives, was equipped with four tor pedo tubes, two 14-pound disappearing Euns and two one-pounders. The usitania, with her speed of 25 knots, probnbly was several knots faster than the submarine which sunk her... - Total Number of Survivors Placed at 7SC By Latest List . i ' New York, May 9. The Cunard Steamship Company tonight announc ed the receipt of the following cable gram from Liverpool: "Un to midnight Queenstown advise total number ot survivors 764 includ ing 462 passengers and 302 crew. "One hundred and forty-four bodios recovered, of which 87 identified and 67 unidentified. Identified bodies comprise 65 passengers, 22 crew. "Number of persons injured: Thirty passengers and seventeen crew." Columbia, S. C, May 7. Seven per sons were killed, many seriously injur ed and much property destroy id by a tornado which swept over tho Peo Dee section of South Carolina late today. Greatest damage was reported In Clar endon, Orangeburg, Darlington and Marlboro counties. Houses were wreck ed, trees uprooted and crops injured in many localities. A MENACE TO THE WORLD. The Horrible Conditions As A Result Of The Epidemic Of Typhus Fever in Serbia. New York Dispatch. The Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission has made public a report on destitution and disease in Serbia, in which it is stated that on March 10 probably from 25,000 to 30, 000 persons were suffering from ty phus in Serbia, and that this and oth er epidemics were "swiftly enveloping the entire nation." Thef report was transmitted from Berlin Cholera was at that time expected with the arrival of warn: weather and no preparation had beta made to combat it, the report suid. Probably 300,000 persons were destitute. Neith er the Serbian government, absorbed in the war, nor the people themselves were able to control the situation, which the commission described as not only a menace to the health of the Serbian peope but of the whole world. It was upon this report that tho Rockefeller Foundation, at the invita tion of the Serbian government, joined with the American Red Cross in send ing to Serbia the American Sanitary Comimssion, which left here April 3, under the leadership of Dr. Richard P. Strong, of the Harvard Medical School. The commission proposed as its first step in controlling the epi demic the isolation of the Infected. First, describing general conditions in Serbia, the report states that the country, as the result of three suc cessive wars, has reached "a state of exhaustion in which it hps practically nothing to give away ta its own un fortunates. The Serbian peasant 5 in normal times is isolated and self' sustaining. The country is economically and so cially unevolved and unorganized to the degree known in western Europe and America. The one railroad through the country is mainly occu pied for military purposes and other roads are out of repaiu and almost impassable. The richest quarter of the country has been invaded and laid waste. Other than to Bulgaria, "which harbors no love for Serbia, the country's only connection with the outer world is to the Greek port of Salonika. These and other cir cumstances are cited as difficulties in the way of relief. The Serbian government, the report says, attributes the inception of ty phus to Austrian prisoners who were quartered to the number of 60,000 throughout the country. ... Every com munity on the main lines ot travel is infected with the disease. As one il lustration of its ravage! and of the prevalence of destitution, the report describes the situation at Nish, the temporary capital, whose normal pop ulation has been incre.-ueA from 2j, 000 to 80,000. due chiefly to the influx of refugees. . "About 275 refugees occupied a school building." the reDort savs. "Eleven small schoolrooms were used, with the number of occupants in each ranging from 15 to 25. There were no Iw.t; "Some of the refugees had filthy stacks of straw, others had only thin blankets of ragged quilts. Some luy on the bare floor. The building was under the charge of a janitor and his wife, who was an ienorant Deasant and saw no disgrace or menace in the awful filth of the building and sur- luunuing jrttru. nui uie miiniest at tempt was made to clean the place, inside or out "It is difficult to describe the condi tion of the people in this building in the language of restraint In the rooms the people were huddled in family groups on the floor. The rav ages of starvation and disease were apnalling. "Villon ill lliai gfl DttlU U1UI usually there were three or four deaths every day. To the members of the commission it was obvious thut several of the sick were dvine. Dis ease and starvation were rapidly set tling an problems ior that unhappy group." The commission was told that in the whole city 100 patients were dying of typhus every day and that the forces of grave diggers was inadequate to keep up with the work of burying the bodies. ' ' - "Consideration of these facts," the rejort continues, "daily impressed more deeply upon our minds that any help which th foundation may be disposed to giva in Serbia should first be devoted to the direct inli and Sup port of a strong, syrtcrmric- fight up on the epidemics which now prevails and which are swiftly enveloping the entire nation. "The conditions whirl, have been de scribed us existing at ish i where the government is fully cognizant of the situation and where the members of the government- themsel -is are un doubtedly aware oS their danger) call for emergency measure and indicate that it would be vain to try now to do anything beyond controlling the epi demic. "It is more important to safeguard those not yet infected by isolating the sick, than it is to give every care to those who are already infected. The work of isolation cannot wait until really comfortable hospitals or fever camps are set up; because in Serbia it might take weeks or months to set them up." STUDENT DROP DEAD WHILE PLAYING BALL. Chapel Hill, May 5. Augustus Tompkins Graydon, of Greenwood, S. C, a law student in the University of North Carolina. drooDed dead from heart trouble at 3:20 o'clock this af ternoon. He was participating in a light form of baseball practice for exercise jn the plot between the li brary and the row of fraternity halls when he suddenly sank to the ? round. He'was removed to a nearby raternity hall and within five min utes breathed his last The efforts of three physicians who arrived in two minutes after the stroke failed to re vive him. At Wilmington the explosion of a carbanator of a soda fountain fatally injured Geo. Lyons, white, and Jim Carr, colored. Policeman Emery of Old Fort who has been in jail at Marion for killing Claud Terrell, is to be released on SACOObaiL FROM THE WAR ZONE Italy Has Army of 600.000 Near Bor - der. Geneva, Switzerland, May 9. An Iliilian rmv of 600.000 fullv enuinued i and ready for the field has been con- ' onf t'tiinH ot Vornnn Verona is a fortified Italian city at the base of the Tyrolese Alps, 25 miles from the frontier of Austria Hungary. London, May 9. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph says: "A private message from Berlin states that Italy yesterday called to the colors all infantry classes from 1876 and that many trains loaded with troops are proceeding to the front" Paris, May 9. According to news from a reliable source in Constanti nople, says a Havas dispatch from Athens, six Turkish transports have been sunk .by the Russians off the Bosporus and two others have been sunk in the sea of Marmora. Teutons Rolling up a Hostile Battle Front By Flanking. Vienna, via London, May 6. The strategic achievement of rolling up a hostile battle front by a flanking at tack, of which Chancellorsville is one of the few successful examples in mo dern history is in full progress in West Galicia. Favorded by continued good weather, mile after mile of the Rus sian Carpathian front has been ren dered untenable by the steady uncheck ed Austro-German advance. The Russian forces have been in full retreat since dawn of May 5 and being closely followed by the Austrian Carpathian army according to offi cial advices reaching here. More than 50,000 prisoners already have been captured by the Austrians in West Galicia.. The heaviset artillery was employed in these operations. The 42 centimeter mortals in action, however, were not the noted German guns, but of Aus trian make. They were designed ori ginally for coast defense purposes, but huve been found exceedingly valuable for land warfare. They fire projec tiles 650 pounds heavier than the Ger man mortar and are understood to be comparatively mobile and quickly set up. The effects of these mortars during the artillery preparations for battle is described as overpowering. Shells from them have reached the supply depots behind Tnrnow. The Austrians also arc equipped with highly effective smuller howitzers of a new type which were put into the field during the lat er stage of the war. London, May 8. "I think the Lusi tania has been torpedoed deliberately, for the purpose of making the United States declare war," said Lord Charles Beresford today. "I foretold the whole present situation in February and pave my reason for thinking Ger many meant to bring America into tho war," Germany Gives Her Reason For the Sinking. Berlin, May 9. Germany today iuun uiiicmi cuKiu&uiice 01 ine sinKing of the Lusitania. An official state ment was issued explaining why it was sunk. "The Lusitania not only was arm ed," said the statement, "but it car ried large Quantities of munitions. The owners, therefore, knew the dan gers, lhey alone bear the responsi bility. Germany left nothing undone to protect passengers. Strong warn ings were repeatedly published, but the English press sneered, relying upon the protection of the British fleet." President Studies Grave Question. Washington, May 8. President Wilson upon whom the eyes of the world are focused at the present mo ment, studied in queit seclusion to day the aspects of law and fact in connection with the sinking by a Ger man torpedo of the British liner Lusi tania with a consequent loss of many American lives. The great human tragedy coupled with the responsibilities of the hour caused the President to deny himself to all callers, even to members of his official family, while he turned over in his mind the course to be pursued by the United States Government in one of the most serious crisis in its history, The only glimpse of the workings of the President s mind was given when the White House tonight issued its first formal comment on the disas ter. The announcement was made that the President realized the coun try expected him to deal with the sit uation "with deliberation as well as firmness." The statement follows: "After a conference with the Pres ident at the White House this even ing. Secretary Tumulty said: "Of course the President feels the distress and the gravity of the situation to the utmost ana is considering very ear nestly, but very calmly, the right course of action to pursue. He knows that the people of the country wish and expect him to act with delibera tion as well as with firmness." SURRENDER OF NO RIGHTS. Washington, May 6. The following statement was issued tonight at the state department after a conference between President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan: "In ordor that there might be. no misunderstanding of the position of the United States in reference to the negotiations pending between JaDan and China the following announcement is made: "At the beginning of negotiations the Japanese government confidential ly informed this government of the matters which were under discussion and accompanied the information by the assurance that Japan had no in tention of interfering with either the political independence or territorial in tegrity of China, and that nothing that she proposed would discriminate against other powers, having treat ies with China, or which all the lead ing nations are committed. "Thsgoveriment not only has no thought of surrenderng any of its treaty rights with China but it has nev er been asked by either Japan or China FATHER KILLS BABY. Was Chastising Ten-Year-Old Son When Whip Slipped From His Hand Pierced Infant's Skull. Spartanburg, May 3. The handle of a small whip, which Wm. Johnson, Jr., a farmer residing on the farm of Mr. B. M. Anderson, near Reid ville, wielded in administering a chastisement to his 10-year old son, slipped from his hand and going like an arrow penetrated the skull of his infant child, held in the arms of its mother, who stood near the door of the room, killing the baby almost in stantly. The mother screamed, "Will, you have killed our baby," and drawing the stick from the child's brain saw that the wound had proved fatal. When Johnson saw what had hap pened he fainted and remained un conscious until revived by neighbors. The accident is one of the most sin gular in the annals of the county; The coroner's inquest held today returned a verdict to the effect that death was accidental. . Johnson however, was committed to the coun ty jail to await an investigation He was was released on bail tonight. The whip used by Mr. Johnson had a short leather thong on the end of it and as he drew it back to strike the boy, the leather came off so that when he made the lick the boy was missed and the handle slipped readi ly from his hand, going, small end foremost, into the baby's brain. to male any surrender of th3e lights. There is no abatement of its interest in the welfare and progress of China and its sole interest in the present negotiations is that they may be con cluded in a manner satisfactory to both nations, and that the terms of the agreement will not only contribute to the prosperity of both of these great oriental empires, but maintain that cordial relationship so essential to the future of both, and to the peace of the world." , . THE GERMAN GAS. London Dispatch to New York Sun. The official press bureau gave out today the following dispatch dated May 3, from Field Marshal Sir John French, regarding the employment by the Germans of asphyxiating gases: ' "The gases have been ejetced from pipes laid into the trenches and also by the explosion of shells especially manufactured. The German troops who attacked under cover of those gases were provided with speciality designed respirators issued in sealed covers. This points to long and me thodical proportions on a large scale. Since the enemy first made use of this method of covering his advance with a cloud of poisoned air he has repeated it for offense and defense whenever the wind has been favor able. "The effect is not merely disabling and, if fatal, painless, as suggested in the German press. The victims do not succumb in the field. They are brought into the hospitals suffering acutely and a large proportion die a painful, lingering death. Those who survive are little better off. The in jury to the lungs appear to make them invalids for life. "These effects are known to the German scientists who devised the new weapon and the military au thorities who sanctioned its use. I am of the opinion that the use of these gases is to be the normal pro cedure of the enemy and that pro tests are useless." H. J. Tennant Parliamentary Sec retary of State for War. announced in the House of Commons this after noon that Great Britain has under consideration the question of "em ploying similar expedients" against the use by German troops on the uattleiieia ot asphyxiating gases. The War Office was informed as far back as April 6, Mr. Tennant said, that the Germans were prepar ing to make use of asphyxiating gases, but the authorities hesitated to believe the report, Germany being a signatory of that jiart of The Hague convention which explicitly forbids the use of such chemicals. WHAT GERMANY'S "ZONE" WAR FARE HAS COST THE UNITED STATES. From The Philadelphia Public- Led ger. On March 28 Leon C. Thresher, an American wns killed when the British liner Falaba was torpedoed and sunk in St George's Channel by a Ger man submarine. The Philadelphia oil ship"1 dishing 'bound for Rotterdam, was at'acked by a German airman in the North Sea last Wednesday. The Cashing which was flying the American flag was damaged by a bomb, but n . lives were lost. list Saturday the American tanker Gulfight from Galveston to Roven trance, was torpedoed off the Scilly Isles. The captain died of shock and two men who jumped overlioard were drowned. On February 11. a week after Ger many had declared the waters around Great Britain would be regarded as a "war zone" beginning February 18, the United States Government made public a note to Germany, which con tained the following warning: "If the commanders of German ves sels of war should act upon the pre sumption that the flag of the United States was not being used in good faith and should destroy on the nigh seas an American vessel or the lives of American citizens it would be diffi cult for the Government of the United btates to view the act in any other light than as an indefensible violation of neutral rights which it would be very hard indeed to reconcile with the friendly relations now happily sub sisting between the two Governments. HENRY W. MILLER VICE PRESIDENT SOUTHERN Henry W. Miller, heretofore assis tant to the president of the Southern railway, has been promoted and elec ted vice president resident at Atlan 4. na The office of first vice president hns been abolished as a remark of respect to the late Col. A. B. Andrews, tha only incumbent since the organisation of the company, SHORT NEWS ITEMS Danville, 111., distinguished as the home of Oldjo Cannon, became dry May 1st because the city council re fused to renew the license of the sa loons 73 in number. Mrs. Tom Kimball, who lived In Union county, in the vicinity of Wax haw, near the Mecklenburg line, was killed by lightning Monday. Friends who gathered at the home of Locke White, Mountain Creek township, Catawba county, Sunday, to celebrate his 38th anniversary, ate ice cream and all were poisoned but recovered. The State Board of Examiners, Dr. J. Y. Joyner, chairman, was in ses sion Monday completing the prelim inary arrangements for the examina tions that are to be held for certifi cation of public school teachers throughout the State on tho second Thursday and Friday of July. The county superintendents will give the examinations and the papers will be returned to Raleigh for grading and for the ultimate issuance of the school certificates to the teachers. ' The engagement of Miss Mary Shu ford, daughter of Mrs. A. A. Shuford) of Hickory, and Mr. R. G. S. Davis, a business man of Henderson, is an nounced. The wedding will take place June 10. The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the case of Chas. Trull, sentenced to death for the murder and robbery of Sydney Swain, a Charlotte merchant, more than a year ago. In Catawba Superior Court at Newton this week was tried the case of Cook vs. Ashebranner, in which $2,500 damages was asked as the re sult of a personal encounter. The ju ry gave the plaintiff 10 cents. After a bitter quarrel said to have originated over land boundaries, Miss Mamie Reed and Mrs. Lillie Mc Donald, by agreement, went to their homes .armed themselves and then met in the public road in the vicinity of Morgan, Geogia, and fought a duel, in which Miss Reed was instantly killed. Mrs. McDonald is the wife of a farmer and the moth er of several children. There were no witnesses to the fatal encounter. Associated Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court men tioned as a possible candidate for Re publican presidential nomination has issued the following: "Justice Hughes wholly disapproves the use of his name in conection with the presi dential campaign. Not only has he no desire to enter politics but as a member of the Supreme Court he is not available. He is not a candidate in any sense and cannot permit his name to be used." 1 A company has been chartered with an authorized capital of $100,000 to build a flour mill in Charlotte. The vote for mayor in the munic ipal election at Maxton wab a tie and was decided by the toss of a coin, T. M. Parsons winning over L. L. Mc Girt. Philip T. White, salesmanager of the Masury Paint company of Brook lyn, who dramatically halted his trial last week to confess that he was liv ing a double life and was the leader of a band of highwaymen who held up his employer's bank messenger and robbed them of nearly $3,000, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for not less man i-z nor more tnan lb years. The owners of the American steam er Wilhelmina, according to the Lon don Daily Mail, have received what they have pronounced to be a hand some and generous settlement at the hands of the British government, namely, full value of the cargo at Hamburg, at war prices, which was 'iiwic man uuuuie uie pi lien ni Eng lish ports, as well os indemnity for delay altogether approximately $430,000. The original value of the' cargo was estimated at $180,000. A reader asks, "What is necessary to make dairying profitable in the South! "-The answer is, home grown funis trnrtA inw nnarc n r, A A men. The first is easy, the second mav be had at no great cost and the third come only through study of what oth er dairymen have learned and consid- erauie experience ana mucn work. The Progressive Farmer. Columbia, May 4. It was an nounced at the State treasurer's of- Q .L. t ill: a . . uce mm. me leruiizer tax receipts to date this year are 55 Der cent of the sales for the same period last year. TAFT COMMENDS WILSON'S NEUTRALITY POLICY. Madison, Wis., May 6. President ' Wilson's neutrality policy was com mended today by former President William H. Taft in an address to the Wisconsin Legislature. "We are in a state or anxious expectancy, a state of sorrow," said Mr. Taft. "For a time we are enjoying a feverish ac tivity in many branches of industry. We must take care that we are not over-joyful and misled that all of this is real prosperity. When peace comes some of this activity will be suddenly cut off. In our business af faire - we must prepare for that cnange. "We have been criticised for the sale of arms and ammunition permit ted under the international rules. The rule has always been that neutrals could furnish arms and foodstuffs. As a Nation we should not place our selves at a disadvantage and take an opposite view of this question. We are always unprepared for war. We must always expect aid from neutrals in case of war. "It would not be an unwise policy in my judgment for us to change this view." We have Just discovered how woman rot her name. When the Crnntnr nU her he said, "woo man." In fh tranai. tion of language tha "" hat been dropped.
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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