The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-10-07
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

November 26.
Exports from Charleston during
September amounted to $3.50, 600,
against S37, 900 for the same month
last year.
JB Duke, the tobacco millionaire
of Durham, N C, has subscribed
100000 year for the rest of his
life to the Southern Methodist
church.
VIM M Nichols. son of Judge Geo
w Nichols of Spartanburg, second
lieutenant in the British royal field
artillery, was killed in a battle in
France early last week.
The municipal primary in Charles
ton will be held next Tuesday. The
contest for Mayor between John P
Grace, the present incumbent, and I
T Hyde will probably be bitter.>
twenty-five true bills against per-
sons charged with violating the dis
pensary law were returned by the
grand jury in the court of general
sessions at Charleston last week.
Col E J Watson, president, has is
sued call for the members of the
Southern Cotton congress to meet in
Charleston December IA, during the
sessions of the Southern Commercial
congress.
Anthony Comstock, widely known
as leader in the fight against vice
in New York city for more than for
ty years, is dead. He began, as a
porter, crusade against obscene
books and pictures.
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The Legislature of Alabama, just
adjourned, passed stringent laws rel
ative to the shipment of liquor into
the State. Each citizen is limited to
two quarts of whisky and six bottles
of beer every two weeks.
xxx
Eight negroes made their escape
from the Sumter county Jail Satur-
day night by digging up the floor of
the cell. Three of the prisoners
have been recaptured, while the
other five are being searched for by
Sheriff Bradford.
The amount of the foreign loans
fnanciers in New York have agreed
to float in this country for the allies
is $500, 100000. The securities are
to be Anglo-French notes. They
bear 596 interest and will be sold at
SO cents, 2 cents below par.
The prohibition law has gone into
effect at Barnwell. The dispensary
there was burned Saturday night
and all the liquor therein destroyed.
and the law forbids the board from
ordering more, now that the result
of the election of September IA has
been declared.
At the recent session of the Asso-
citation of Attorney Generals held at
San Francisco, Attorney General I
H Peoples of South Carolina was
elected vice president of that body.
He was the youngest member of the
association and the only Southerner
elected to office.
Mrs Mary Furay of county Gal
way, Ireland, is announced in London
to have the mothers record in the
present war. She has given ten sons
to the British army. Five are dead
in France, one is in a hospital recov-
ering from wounds, another is nurs-
ing a right arm shattered by a bull
let, one is a prisoner in Germany and
one remains fighting.
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Late advices say that Germany
has acceded to the American de-
mands for settlement of the Arabic
case. The Imperial Government,
through it's ambassador, Count Won
Bernstorff, disavows the sinking of
the vessel and announces that 1t has
so notified the submarine command
er who made the attack. Germany
also expresses regret for the loss of
lives and agrees to pay An
to the families of Ameri-
cans lost by the destruction of the
vessel.
The Colds Of Mankind Cured bV Pines