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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
AUSTRIA OFFERS CONCESSIONS
FOR ROUMANIAN SUPPORT
Teutonic Empires Forcing Balkan
States to Announce Def
mite Decision.

Berlin sends out 3 dispatch We'd
nesday saying that in reply to the de-
mands made upon Roumania by Aus
tria the Rumanian go .rnment has
demanded the cessation Of certain
territory now forming part Of the
Austro-Hungarian empire. Accord
ing to the indications in Germany,
the negotiations are expected to be
Of some length, but an effective COM
promise will probably be reached.
An earlier dispatch from the Ger
man capital said that the trouble
with America is temporarily over
shadowed and all isterer:: is centering
on the diplomatic battle in the Bal
kars. There is general satisfaction
that Germany arG Austria is calling
for a showdown from the Balkan
powers, for which it is believed the
time is particularly ripe. What will
Rumania do is the question OF the
hour.
Bucharest, the capital of Rumania,
reports that the Austro-Hungarlan
misister on Wednesday last, present
ed to the prime minister proposals Of
fering Rumania certain concessions In
exchange for definite neutrality aud
facilities for supplying Turkey with
munitions of war.
Austria offers to cede to Rumania
a part Of Bukowina as far south as
Sereth, and at the same time ameh-
crate the treatment of Rumanians in
the monarchy, granting university
to Brashow, large admission If Ruma-
mans in Hungary into the public ser
vice, and greater liberty Of admins
tration to the Rumanian churches.
An alternative proposal affects the
| entry Of Rumania into the field OF
action on the side of the Fermanic
powers. In this event the ceded ter.
ritory would be extended to Czerno-
WITT and the Hse Of the Pruth, and
| the frontier on the Dlnube wo1ld be
| extended beyond the Iron Gates and
include Mehadia. The undertaking
| mentioned above with regard to- the
situation of Rumanianc is Hungary
would also apply, but allowing COM
| plete autonomy to TranSylYania.
There is also an undertaking that the
| Austro-German armies will occupy
Bessarabia, and hand it over imme-
diately to Rumania. Germany guar
antees the executios Of these pro-
posals. .
A significant point is that there is
fixed, the term Of one month within
which either alternative arrangement
must be agreed to. This IS the time
the Germans hope the Turks win be
able to hold out in the Dardaneues.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINIAN
DIES In GOVERNMENT WORK
Joseph Holmes, Director OF Federal
Bureau of Mines, Passes Away
From Oyerwork.

Joseph Austin Holmes, director OF
the federal bureau of mines at
Washington and a widely known
'geologist, died at Denver, COL, Tues
day of tuberculosis. He had been i'll
several months and came to Denver
four months ago in the hope OF re-
gaining strength.
DR.. Holmes was f1fty-fve years old,
He was a native of South Carolina.
He had been director of the bureau
of mines since it's creation by con-
gress in 1910.
Previously he had been chief OF
the chronological branch of the Unit
ed States Geological Survey in charge
of investigation of mine accidents
His service to the federal government
began in 1904 when he was placed in
charge of United States Geological
Survey laboratories for testing fuels
and structural materials at st. Louis
He was a graduate of Cornell Uni.
versity and for a time was profes-
sor of geology and natural history at
the University of North Carolina. He
was state geologist for that state
from 1891 until 1904. A widow and
four children survive
Dr.. Joseph A. Holmes, says E
Washington dispatch, was regarded
by his associates in the government
service as the father Of the bureau OF
mines, which by a camEaign of edu.
cation and experiment as largely re.
duced the death toll among under,
ground workers. He also was &C
| credited with making safety first
national movement.
''The saddest part of it ALL SAID
Van H. Manning, acting director Of
the mines bureau, sis that DR.
Holmes was a victim of overworl
and his devotion to his duties in be-
| half of the safety of the millio1
miners in the United States.
His continual insistence on goins
only where his trained rescue crew.
should go, sharing the dangers thai
should have gone only to more robust
men, seriously affected his health
Dr.. Holmes was a martyr to the cause
of safety among the miners and hi:
| name is added to the honor roll o.
bureau rescuers who gave up theiI
lives to the cause"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
ALLIED AVIATORS DROP
FATAL STEEL ARROWS
Falling From Great Heights They
Bury Themselves in the
Resting Soldiers.

The arrows which allied aviators
are using over the battlefelds are in
two parts, a head and short flanged
shaft. The head measures about two
and a quarter inches, and the total
length of the arrow is four and half
inches
Both the head and the shaft are of
steel, the, flange being formed of two
flat pieces of metal set at right
angles, the ends of the four flanges
thus produced being set into the steel
head. The diameter of the whole
head is about five-sixteenths of an
inch, tapering to a fine point and the
whole weight is about twenty-one
grams.
A German doctor gave the follow
ing description of the use and effect
of the allies arrows at meeting of
the Stuttgart medical society.
Three companies of German sol
diers were resting when two aero
planes circled overhead at height Of
about twelve thousand metres Sud
denly one of the soldiers felt sharp
stabbing pain in his right foot, and
thought one of his fellow soldiers
had inadvertently pricked it; but the
illusion was soon disbc.led when he
heard cries of pain all about him.
The horses, too, became restive
and two were found to be wounded.
Looking at his foot the soldier found
an iron arrow had penetrated it. He
Immediately plucked it out. About
fifteen others had been hit and the
source Of the arrows being discover
ed the men took cover under wagons.
1t was subsequently estimated that
about fifty arrows had been discharg-
ed and every third arrow had taken
effect.
The Importance of the weapons,
particularly when dropped on resting
soldiers IS therefore considerable and
the fact that about half the casual
ties consisted of wounds in the lower
limbs shows how vulnerable the rest
ing soldier is to arrows from above.
Evidently the arrows scatter con-
siderably for in one case four COM
panies were simultaneously hit. One
case was mentioned of an arrow pass
ing through the scalp without injur-
ing the skull, but aLJther caused
death by entering the left temple
and passing out again by the right.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
MACKENSEN STRANGELY QUIET
Field Marshal :.-tays Silent-Reports
are in Conflict.

Contradictory reports regarding
the extent of the Austro-Hungarian
reverse at Krasnik, in Southern Po-
land continue, some even claiming
that the Teutons are contemplating
a general retreat. The mystery Of
the situation is the persistent silence
maintained by Field Marshal Won
Mackellsen, who, apparently, is max
ing no effort to resume the German
advance on Warsaw,
Petrograd b heves this jnaction is
due to the fear Of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen that his left flank would
be exposed while the Austrians were
on the defensive, but some fear is
expressed by London observers that
the brilliant German military COM
mander is planning an unexpected
coup.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21

nation of Mr.. Latham. The witness
declared that the deceased Isenhower
was fumbling with something hidden
by The Coat on his arm, and that
Clyde senhower fired the initial shot,
profrudins his pistol through the bal
listers a. the sheriff.
With the testimony C. E. B. Mason
and James Montgomery that four or
i've shots were discharged before
She. Hoo, attempted to return the
fusi de. the coroner's jury returned
hr:msi4g in the following verdict:
We. q coroner's jury, find that
tdam ID. Hood came to his death by
gunsho; wouads by Clyde Isenhower.
Ernest Isenhower, Jesse Morrison
and Jim t.wls, and others possibly
unknown - the jury
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
ENGLAND PLANS ADDITIONAL ].
RESTRICTIONS ON COTTON
Discussing Advisability OF Declaring
1t contraband-Marquis OF
Crewe Refers to South.

The British government hopes
very shortly to limi the export Of
cotton to neutral countries to the
precise amount Of actual need. This
was the announcement Of the Mar
quis of Crewe. lord president Of the
council and Liberal leader to the
House of Lords Thursday in reply to
series Of questions regarding the
supply Of cotton aid other material
through neutral countries to Ger
many, and whether the government
had found that the measures taken.
since March / were effective.
The real question, he thought, was
whether is was advisable 20 add cot
ton to the contraband list. On that
question there had b :en number OF
misunderstanding and misapprehcn-
sions and some of them, the speaker
said, undoubtedly obtained not only
in this country, but in neutral coun-
tries
So far as could be ascertained, he
continued, the naval measures taken
to prevent fresh supplies Of cotton
from reaching Germany had been
successful. The government hoped
by continual friendly negotiations to
improve the position progressing to-
ward what must be their main pur-
pose; namely, to limit the exports to
those neutral countri S to the precise
amount Of their actual needs calcu-
lated on the average imports which
they had employed at home during
the last few years.
The Marquis of Crewe said that on
this question of contreband there
could be no magic in the mere decla-'
ration Of any commodity as contra
band so long as the government pur-
sued its present system of examining
all goods He did not think any one
would suppose that under interna-
tional law or the most elementary
rules of fair play it was possible to
institute a blockade of neutral coun-
tries with whom England had no
quarrel.
Therefore, the government had
adopted q policy, which admittedly
was novel, but which was rendered
necessary by the changed conditions
of maritime warfare. The desire Of
the government was to admit the ex-
port to neutral countries Of goods
representing the needs Of these coun-
tries, and absolutely no more.
"In the United States" he said,
"the placing Of cotton on the contra
band list would cause no small
amount of alarm, and the govern
ment is convinced that so far as the
entrance of cotton into. Germany is
concerned we should gain no benefit.
At present we stand better in in
structed public opinion in the United
States than our enemies, and, there
fore, unless it is clear that a change
of this kind is absolutely necessary,
the government is averse to taking
action. which would be regarded by
a particular interest in the Southern
States of America as being unfriend-
ly.
81 certainly am not going to say
that if the military considerations
were found to be paramount we
might not have to face corresponding
disadvantages, and we should be un-
wise to bind ourselves strictly
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
COTTON STORED JUNE RUNS
100000 BALES OVER 1914
Manufactures in II Months Use a..
900 Bales Less-EXports
Drop 753,2SS Bales.

Cotton manufacture showed in.
creased activity in June, taking 6S,-
655 more bales of cotton than in
June last year, and 1000 bales more
than in May last, the total being A.
900 bales, the Gems; bureau an
nounced Wednesday.
Durine the 11-month period ending
with June, however, cotton manufac-
ture was 1900 bales less than in the
corresponding period year ago. In
all, 5,100,322 bales were used against
5,177,745 in 1915.
Cotton spindles active during June
were 31,E20,592 compared with 80
94S,04S last year.
Linters used during June were
54,6S3 bales, against 29,993 last
year; held in manufacturing estab-
lishments 195,149 bales against SS,-
$50 last year, held in independent
warehouses 106,029 bales agains,
35,S0S last year, and exported 49,
065 bales
Cotton on hand June 80 in manu-,
featuring establishments was 1922.
499 bales compared with 1,156,59G
last year and IN independent ware
houses 2,0S5,347 compared with g.,
4S7 last year.
Warehouses and manufacturing
ablishments together held 3,T07,
S46 bales on June 80 against 1,7S7,
0S6 bales a year ago.
Imports were 1929, equivalen
500 pound bales compared with 49,,
010 last year.
Exports in June were 294,391 run
ming bales, including linters, com
pared with 295,57S last year. Elk
ports during June were only 1,1S'
bales less than in June last year, not
,withstanding the effect Of the Euro
pean war. In the II months the ex
ports were only 753,2SS bales les
than the previous year, the tota
reaching S,271S302 bales against 8,
| 024,590 last year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
e SHIPS SUNK IN JUNE
German Submarines Give ".AmpIe
Warming" Says Berlin.

A wireless from Berlin Wednesday,
received at Sayville, says: During
June. twenty-nine British, three
French. one Belgian and nine Russian
merchantmen were sunk by German
submarines" says an Overseas
Agency bulletin. THE total loss of
the entente allies by submarines, in
Guiding fishing steamers which most
ly were armed patrol boats. aggre-
gated one hundred and twenty-five
thousand tons
The loss of human life was re-
markably small. the submarines us
ing every precaution and giving am
pie warning and time for crews to
leave their ships ii no resistance was
attempted"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
MANNING ISSUES PAROLES
Follows Recommendation of State
Board of PardonS.

Gov Manning Wednesday morning
paroled William Milwee Cook, white
25 years of age, during good be-
havior. On January Is, 1915, in the
court of general sessions for Richland
county, Cook pleaded guilty to the
charge of breach Of trust with frau
dulent intent.
He was indicted for defalcation
from the Columbia Mills company
while in it's employ n Columbia as
paymaster. John S. Wilson, the pre-
siding judge, sentenced him to two
years at hard labor In the state peni-
tentiary, and ne Immediately began
to serve his sentence. Up to We'd
nesday he had served six months. 9
pardon was recommended by the
state board of pardons.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
WILL OFFER AMNESTY
Carranza Will Forgive His Enemies
Who Turn to Peace.

Gen. Carranza will issue an am
nesty decree to MeXicans who vii
return ''to the true path His agency
at Washington Wednesday received
this dispatch from Vera Cruz: with
reference to the occupation Of Mexico
City, Gen. Pablo Gonzales will af
ford all kinds Of guarantees to ma
tives and foreigners. He has instruc'
tions from me severely to punish al
crimes against property.
within a few days l will, in my
capacit-- as first chief, issue an am.
nesty Law IN an endeavor to have
those in error return to the true
patch and to restore peace and order
in the repl. bile"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
pert judgment and advice.

expert judgment and advice.
"1n addition to the advisory board
of engineers, I also would suggest q
station for experimenting. The cost
would be nominal. Only few acres
of land would be required with prop
er buildings and corps of efficient
men calculated to carry out expert
ments under direction of those sug-
gesting them, after they have been
approved.
cit is an important matter and
should be put under way at once.
The European war has served to draw
attention to the fact that many
American ideas and inventions have
been allowed to slip by, and if this
matter is put off until the war is
over there is danger of it's being for
gotten"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
Thaw Obtains Freedom.

Supreme Court Justice Hendrick
upheld Friday the decision OF tie
jury which declared Harry X. Thaw
sane. Thaw was then given his free
dom on thirty-five thousand dollars
bail.
Harry Thaw and party arrived in
Atlantic City. \. j.. Friday night.
They plan to stay over until Saturday
morning
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
:auStrians Invade Russia.

Dispatches from Austrian head
quarters Friday say that after a
heavy bombardment the Austrans
have crossed the Dniester at Cciebis-
kupie. on the Russian border. where
the Austrian crown lands Of Galicia
and Bukowina and the Russian PROV
ince Of Bessarabia meet.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
Daniels Goes to See Edison.

Because Thomas A. Edison was too
busy in his laboratory to go to Wash
ingtin, Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels has announced his intention to
visit the inventor at West Orange,
\. j., to discuss naval affairs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
Tennessee Carries Refugees.

Alexandria,. Egypt. Wednesday:
The United States cruiser Tennessee
has arr-red with six hundred refugees
from the coast OF Asia Minor. most Of
whom are Italians and Svrians.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
French AeroDlane Raid.

Thirty-fve French aeropIanes,
Paris reports. swept over the railroad
station serving the Calonne trench
region and dropped one hundred and
seventy-one bombs Tuesday. starting
several fires. All the airmen return
cd
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21

umn and Mr.. RawlS beside the col
umn. I saw him with a pistol, but
did not see him shoot.
"After the shooting had stopped,
saw Mr.. Boulware coming down the
steps and Ernest Isenhower shot
again. At that time Mr.. Rawls was
behind the column. After Ernest
Isenhower shot jr. the direction OF
Raleigh Boulware, who was coming
down the steps, Jim Rawls came
from behind the column. That was
the last shot made.
Il was sitting on one Of he
benches in front of the court house
and had full view of it all. Mr.,
Boulware never flinched. have seen
these men on the streets a good many
times, and knew them when I saw
them. l have been knowing Mr
Rawls for several years, but I never
knew Mr. Morrison until that morn
ing. Some one told me before the
shooting that that was Mr.. Morrison
with MIR. Isenhower.
"When Raleigh Boulware was COM
ing down the steps before he was
shot, he did not have pistol in his
hand, and if he had one he had it in
his pocket. saw another strange
man shooting that morning, but
have not seen him since. He had on
dark clothes, but he hal his coat on
his arm. He had dark hat on. If
I would see him, I would recognize
him, but I have not seen him since.
81 did not see Ernest Isenhower,
Clyde Isenhower, Mr.. Morrison and
Mr.. Rawls together before the shoot
ing, but they Joined each other out
on the streets. The three went on,
but Ernest Isenhower stopped. l saw
Clyde Isenhower. Ernest Isenhower,
Mr.. Rawls, Mr.. Morrison and that
strange fellow all with pistols, and
then the deputies, too. I saw Ernest
Isenhower shoot and saw Mr.. Rawls
with pistol. but did not see him
shoot. The column kept me from
seeing him. He could have shot, but
the post was in my way"
A. W. Brice's testimony was of lit
tie value. since he was not in a posi-
ton TO see much of the tragedy ex-
cept that he saw Ernest Isenhower
shoot from behind the column and
that Isenhower fired the last shot OF
the fusilade. The coroner's jury
then took a recess until three o'clock
to await the arrival Of Edward La
than, a farmer Some members of
the iury wished to proceed without
Latham a lively tilt ensuing, but it
was tin~'iy agreed that Latham be
su-Gm. e..
AS proof that Clyde Isenhower was
~emeGitating his act while the She
if and his posse were crossing the
street was introduced Oh the exami-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-30
JAPANESE Plan
MASS Meeting
and PROTESTS
Association Officers Decide AL
legged Lack of Police Pro-
lection is Unbearable

Driven to desperation by the alleg.
Led indifference and neglect of the
Honolulu police and detective forces.
Honolulu's large Japanese population
will hold mass meeting before Sat
urday of this week and determine up
on some drastic course OF action
which will protect them from contin-
ual assaults, holdups and robberies.
This course was definitely decided
upon last evening at an executive
session of nine of the directors of the
Japanese Association Of Hawaii, held
at the Central Japanese Institute on
Nuuanu street. At the meeting last
night nearly two score definite COM
plants against the police were taken
up and discussed, and as result two
courses of action will be suggeted at
the mass meeting, either or both of
which may be adopted.
The plan most generally favored is
for the japanese of the city to raise
a large fund by voluntary contribu-
tions from people of their own race
q fund which will be kept alive by
stipulated monthly contributions and
use it for the employment and equip
ment of an armed Japanese police
force to guard the Japanese sections
of the city. 2s,-~
A second plan is to form volun-
teer. Japanese police force, and If pos
sible to effect some working arrange
ment whereby the volunteers can
work under the direction and partial
control of Sheriff Rose and his depu-
ties, and in addition to offer a series
of large rewards for the capture of
any of the desperadoes who have been
terrorizing the Japanese of Honolulu
Night after night, say the complain.
ants, masked robbers hold up Japan.
ese, or. enter their homes and rob
them. The police give noAprotection,
and even when frantic calls for aid
are telephoned in to the station, the
officers tell them to Come around
and report in the morning." they
claim. .... T.. -....
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-30
KCANDLESS IS
BITTER AGAINST
FRONTAGE Plan
viii File Stiff Protest With
Supervisors Tonight Against
Beretania improvements
"HIGHWAY ROBBERY IS
HIS NAME FOR SCHEME
Says He Believes Other Prop
erty Owners Will Protest;
Strong Fight Rumored

The public hearing on the proposed
Improvement to Beretania street
which will he held as the only order
of business at meeting called to
night In the city hall, bids fair to be
a lively one, judging from talk heard
in municipal offices today.
l. L. McCandless, owner of large
amount OF property along Beretania,
between Nuuanu avenue and the juno
tion with King street. has filed a pro
test with the supervisors against the
work. It Is understood that other pro-
tests from property owners will be
filed.
u am not making a fight on the
question any more than other owners
of property along Beretania in this
&ecfion, said McCandless today. Il
d. not know whether or not shall
be At the meeting, but my protest will
Be there. / am allowed that much
II do not favor the frontage tax law
10 any form whatever" says McCand-
less Il do not favor 1t with the city
paying one-third of the cost of inn
HA0tGnOutt uuu cuOulu llOI ldyOE ~
II they decided to pay more. con-
slider IL highway robbery that citizens
are compelled to submit to it
Il dc. not know" continues McCand-
less, lust what We are paying taxes
for. II seems that we ought to get
out Of them. If the govern
nieht win waive my taxes and let me
- th1 Enouey. into lstfeet Improve
n1eht shall be satisfied, but I do OBJ
5ect to paying taxes and building the
streets for the city atsthe same time.
McCandless will send In the protest
by himself, 1t is understood. He says
that he believes several other protests
will also be filed, however. People
are paying enough taxes already, he
says, without having the burden OF
this frontage tax law thrust upon
them.