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THE PIEDMONT

TODAY`S COTTON AND
SEED MARKETS


Cotton. Seed.
Greenville 17.00c $54
Greer 17.00c $54
Piedmont 16 1-8c $54
Pelzer 16 1-2c $54
Fountain Inn 17.00c $64
Taylors 16 1-2c $64
Simpsonville 17.00c $54
WEATHER Probably local rains tonight and
Friday, mild temperatures.

HIDING YOUR LIGHT
under a bushel, Mr. Merchant, will
same day result in the light going out.
Keep step with the spirit of the
times—keep your name and your busi-
ness in the minds of the public.

VOLUME 87—No. 25 EIGHT PAGES TODAY. GREENVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1917. HOME EDITION. PRICE 5 CENTS

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ENORMOUS DEPT INCREASES FOR
WARRING NATIONS, TEUTONS DEBTS
TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS MORE.

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Figures Showing Expenses of Fight-
ing Nations Show Teutons Debts
Have Increased Nearly Fifty Bil-
lion Dollars—Allies About Twen-
ty Nine Million.

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Washington, Jan. 1.—National debt
of Great Britain, France, Russia, Ger-
many and Austria-Hungary increased
$49,456,000,000 from the beginning of
the war to the latter part of 1916, the
Federal Reserve Board estimated. The
Austria Hungary estimates, however,
extended only to May 1916. The En-
tente nations debt increased twenty-
nine billion.

The British National debt the board
estimated, was approximately [$218,-
163,754,000] in November. It was [$2-
441,811,000] in March 1914. Loans to
the Allies and dominions are included
in the grand total estimated at three
to three and a half billion. France's
total loans to the Allies during the
war is estimated at approximately
$[8]10,040,400. The Russian national
debt has risen above 9,884,000,000
rouples in January 1, 1914 to 25,-
880,084 rouples or about $1[3,111]-
000,000 dollars. The war has been
costing Germany $524,830,000 month-
ly since [Romania?] entered the war,
it is estimated. The total national
debts of the Teutonic nations are not
estimated.

The board estimates in tabulations
made public today, does not cover
the entire cost of the war as large
revenues of undermined amounts
have been raised by internal taxation.
It is estimated the national debt in-
creases are:

Great Britain, to N ovember 11,
$18,258,863,000.

France, to August 11, $8,036,500,000.

Russia to December e1, $7,573, 874.

Germany, to October 21, $15,160,-
800,000.

Austria, $[5],716,200,000.

Hungary, $1,814,400,000.
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CONFERENCE ON
CATTLE TICK

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Washington, D. C., Jan.4.—Prob-
lems involved in the elimination of
cattle fever from the Southern
States and methods of furthering the
work will be discussed at a confer-
ence of employees of the United
States department of agriculture en-
gaged in cattle tick eradication and
officials of the state live stock sanitary
organizations to be held in Atlanta,
Georgia, January 8 to 12. The con-
ference will be attended by the fed-
eral and state employees engaged in
tick eradication work in the seven
states east of the Mississippi still not
free from infestation.

A similar conference of the tick
eradication workers of the four
states west of the Mississippi in
which the pest is still present will
be held in Dallas, Texas, January 23
to February 2. The papers and
discussions of the conferences will
deal with general organization, pre-
liminary activies, the work of sys-
tematic tick eradication, the advan-
tages of state-wide tick eradication
laws, the constuction of [blurry], edu-
cational publicity, etc.
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PROSPERITY WILL
PROBABLY CONTINUE

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Washington, Jan.4.—Business ac-
tivity continued at a high level
throughout the country during last
month according to primary report
of the Federal Reserve agents issued
by the Federaal Reserve board. Cond-
itions changed little in the Atlanta dis-
tricts. There is an abundance of mon-
ey said the report, and confident feel-
ing that the prosperous times will
continue. Richmond district reports
a continuance of the full tide of the
prosperity
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GA. TROOPS TO RETURN.
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan.4.—Georgia's troops
on Mexican border will not be there
much longer, if the petition of Gov-
ernor Harris and Mayor Candler of
Atlanta and some thousands of the
other citizens are of any avail with
President Wilson in inducing him
to include the National Guard of this
State in the next units to be ordered
home.

The petition launched in Savannah
by Rev. John [R]. Wilder, pastor of the
South Side Baptist Church of that city
and chaplain of the First [blurry]
of Savannah for sometime, was yes-
terday brought to Atlanta and pre-
sented to the Governor, and he very
promptly joined with 1,400 or
more citizens who had signed, re-
questing an early return of the Geor-
gia troops to the homes.
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So Large She Has to
Enter Door Edgewise

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The largest woman ever placed
in the county jail is the way Depu-
ty Sheriff George King described the
arrest of Stacy Robertson, colored,
who is held on a charge of receiv-
ing stolen goods in connection with
the robbery at Caudle's store on
North Main street several nights ago.
The woman weighs in the neighbor-
hood of 350 pounds, said the officer,
who explained that she had to enter
a narrow door, edgewise.
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LOON TORPEDOED
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London, Jan.4.—French steamer
Loon was torpedoed. The crew was
saved.

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RAIL LEGISLATION
PRESSED IN HOUSE

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Railroad
legislation desired by President Wil-
son to supplement the Adamson law
is to be pressed in the house with-
out waiting for motion by the senator.
After a conference with the Presi-
dent today and while the senate com-
mittee was continuing its hearings
on the subject Representative
Adamason, chairman of the house
commerce committee, announced that
within a few days he would introduce
and seek the passage of the bill de-
signed to prevent railroad employes
from striking without giving sixty
days notice and to enpower the
President to place tied-up bonds in
the hands of military authorities in
case of public [blurry].

It has been understood that the
President wanted the railroad pro-
gram completed by amendments to a
measure now pending in the senate.
Mr. Adamson said today, however,
that he was tired of waiting for the
senate to act.

Mr. Adamson also will press his
proposed special rule, now in the
house rules committee, for immed-
iate consideraation of his resolution to
extend the life of the Newlands
railway Investigation committee for
one year. The [blurry] of the committee
will expire next Monday, unless it is
extended. Objection by Representa-
tive Rayburn of Texas, today block-
ed unanimous consent for consider-
ation of the resolution.

Vigorous opposition to the propose-
ed compulsary notice measure from
organized labor generally is antici-
pated. It was to fight such proposals
that the four railway brotherhoods
and the American Federation of Labor
representatives recently allied
themselves [blurry]. They oppose
all measures forcing men to labor.
Brotherhood officials are expected
here within the next few days to tes-
tify before the senate committee.

Judge Wm. L. Chambers, of the
federal board of mediation and arbi-
tration; Everett P. Wheeler, repre-
senting tthe Reform Club of New
York and Amos Hathaway, of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce, tes-
tified today before the committee.
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MRS. INNESS MAY
DIE WAITING SAID

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Atlanta, Ga., Jan.4.—While the
authorities are trying to decide
whether Mrs. Ida May Innes is sick
enough to be let out on bond and
sent to a sanitarium, the poor wo-
man will very likely die in jail, ac-
cording to her lawyers.

Susected with her husband, Vic-
tor E. Innes, of knowing more than
she has ever told about the strange
disappearance of the Nelms sisters
from Atlanta a few years ago. Mrs.
Innes is awaiting trial in connection
with money secured from Mrs. Eloise
Nelma Dennis, the elder of the sis-
ters.

Her husband has been tried and
convicted and sentenced to serve
seven years, and is now in the Fulton
county jail awaiting the outcome of
an appeal.
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Pardoned After Nine
Year Fight for Release

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SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Jan. 2.—
Governor Dunne today granted a
pardon to Herman Billik, who in
June 1907, was sentenced in Cook
county to be hanged for the murder
of Mary Vryzal. Previously the
death sentence had been commuted
to life imprisonment.

Billik's freedom is due to the un-
tiring efforts of Father Peter J.
O'Callaghan, of Washington, D. C.,
formerly of [hCicago] who through
nine years had fought for the pirson-
er's liberty.

According to the priest, Jerry
Vryzal, brother of the dead girl,
confessed to him that the testimony
at the trial in which he said he had
seen Billik put poison in his sister's
coffee, was given at the suggestion
of the police and was wholly untrue.
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STORY WRITER.
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan.4.—Another
Georgia newspaper man is climbing
rapidly to a pedestal in the contemp-
orary literary hall of fame. Tarleton
Collier, formerly reporter on one of
the Atlanta papers, and now a Wash-
ington correspondent, who ocassion-
ally sold stories to magazines while he
[worked?] in this city, has just won a
prize in a short story contest conduct-
ed by the New York Evening Sun. His
story, entitled "Innocence," has been
prounounced by competent critics to be
a very fine piece of work.

Georgia's fourth estate has been
prolific in furnishing successful writ-
ers for the magazine world, among
them being the late Jacques Futrelle,
Don Marquis, Grantland Rice and
others equally well known.
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RUSSIAN SUCCESS
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Petrograd, Jan.4.—The capture
Russians on the Rumanian fron-
tier of six hundred prisoners, three
cannon, sixteen machine guns, to-
gether with some mine throwers and
bomb mortars is announced by the
war office. The success came from
an attack on a hostile position on
the heights south of [Botocho?] moun-
tain in the wooded Carpathians.
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TRYON HALL SOLD
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New York, Jan.4.—Tryon Hll,
the two million dollar estate of C.
R. G. Billings, capitalist and sports-
man, known as the only "Country
Place" on Long Island has been sold
to a prominent New York man, it is
announced. The house is bilt on
the site of Fort Tryon of Revolu-
tionary fame in Upper Manhattan.
The purchasers' name was with-
held.

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WILSON TO MAKE
ANOTHER MOVE
TOWARD PEACE

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Washington, Jan.4.—President
Wilson will make at least one more
move for peace, after the Entente
reply to his note has been received it
was learned definately here. It is in-
dicated, however, that no final decision on
the nature of the next step has been
reached. The [blurry] prevailed
here that important developments in
the peace negotiations have been
transpiring although the administra-
tion continued effort. Officials decline
to comment on the reports of Ambass-
ador Gerard after a talk with the
German chancellor, probably trans-
mitted the report on the [detain?] of
the German peace terms to make
these available to the Entente Allies.

Colonel E. M. House, a cloe advis-
or of the President conferred with the
President and others.

Definite arrangements for the pub-
lication of the Entente reply have
not yet been announced here. The
President 's [attends?] has been describ-
ed today in making sure that some bene-
ficial results would come of the ne-
gotiations and he is [blurry] himself
ready for the next step.
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MOUNTAINEER
MAKES ESCAPE

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Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 3.—The next
time they get hold of north Geor-
gia moonshiner in the Fulton county
jail, which will probably be in no
very far distant future date, they
will general guard him a little
more carefully and accord him
fewer privileges than they did Jack
Knott, who was serving a six
months sentence in [blurry] by
order of United States Judge W. T.
Newman for the well-known offence
of turning mountain corn into moun-
tain dew.

Jack was such a friendly sort of
fellow, and had such winning ways
that they granted him the privileges
of a "run around" in the Fulton
county tower which is to say that
he was allowed to roam at will on
the third floor, coming and going
when he chose, just so he didn't
choose to leave the floor.

With the cunning of the woods-
man and the mountaineer, Jack got
the killer to believing that he didn't
care if he never saw daylight, and
then he flew the coop. His method
was to saw through the heavy iron [bar?]
with some unknown instrument of
his own contrivance, lower himself
to the ground by means of a blank-
et rope and mount a pile of coal and
jump the [20?]-foot wall.
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CRAIG FAVORS
HIGH SALARIES

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Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 4.—Governor
Craig addressing the North Carolina
general assembly recommended in-
creased salary for State officers, be-
cause of the high cost of living. He
also urged the return of part of the
earnings of State convicts to depend-
able families.
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OVER 1800 DIE
VIOLENT DEATHS

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Chicago, Jan. 4.—There were [313?]
homicides and [612?] suicides here dur-
ing 1916 according to the coroners
report, while 189 persons perished in
street-car, automobile, train or oth-
er accidents.
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Goes Back to Mines
From Editor's Chair

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BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Jan. 3.—
From the editor's chair to the coal
mines; that is what the high cost
of print paper has done to John El-
lison, editor and proprietor of the
[Wiss?] Review, just over the state
line in Virginia.

He said he could not stand the
high price of newsprint any longer,
and that Marvin Ellison, his brother,
could have the business to make out
of it what he could.

John has leased a mine from a
coal company and Marvin, it is be-
lieved, will follow him to the mines
before many issues are printed, for
it is said John is making more money
in one day with dynamite and shovel
than he ever made in a week with his
newspaper.
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New Railway Station
Finished at Spartanburg

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SPARTANBURG, Jan. 3.—(Spec-
ial)—The new union passenger sta-
tion, costing $[80,000?], was turned over
to the Southern Railway here today
by the contractors. The work which
has been underway for more than a
year, has resulted in the complete re-
modeling of the old station, the crea-
tion of long [sheds?] of concrete, the
building of an underpass to be used
in reaching trains and in the doubling
of the size of waiting rooms. A
new express building has also been
erected.
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A New Staff.

James R. (Hopping Jim") Bates,
who was elected last year for the
office of the register of means con-
veyance and who took the oath of
his office Monday, has "fixed up" the
office and made several changes,
much to the delight of lawyers, etc.
He has also secured the services of
two lady stenographers, Miss Mary
Lathem, Miss Lottie Coleman.

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CONDITIONS IN
DETENTION CAMP
WERE DEPLORABLE

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Woeful Conditions and Lack of Food
is Described by Belgians Sent
Back From Camp at Soltau in
Prussia—Poor Food Served.

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The Hague, Jan. 4.—Reported
Belgians invalided home from the
camp in Soltau, Prussia, in the first
report received directly from the
Belgians, declared the food was such
that strong men became weak
and weak men ill. Some became so
hungry they crept into the kitchen
and collected packages of peaches,
turnips and carrots.

The Belgians were returned home,
according to the report, because they
almost in a dying condition.
Seventy were crowded into a cattle
car attached to a freight train.

According to these Belgians, they
received, while in the Soltau camp a
bowl of some decoction made from
acorns at six o'clock in the morn-
ing. At midday they received half
a litre of soup containing much wa-
ter and a few turnips, carrots and
shrimps served without bread or po-
tatoes. At three o'clock they had
slightly more than half a pound of
black bread, one end often mildew-
ed. In the evening they received
half a litre of soup, sometimes con-
taining corn or brown maize.

According to these accounts there
are eleven thousand Belgians at
Soltau who refused to work and still
hope to obtain their release.
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Two Became Insane.

The Hague, Jan. 4.—Two Belgians
were said to have become insane the
first week. One workman who at-
tempted to escape was captured and
shot down and then finished with
a bayonet.

Captured Belgian soldiers were in
a near-by camp. The soldiers were
better fed than the civilians. The
soldiers were allowed to attend the
funerals of civilians, and secretly
brought them bread and preserved
articles of food.

Sand For Soap.

The returned Belgians said they
received no soap at Soltau and were
advised to use sand. Notwithstand-
ing sufferings most of them refused to
work, although promised good food
and considerable pay.
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INHERITANCE TAX
TO BE DEFENDED

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Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4.—Clifford Walker,
Attorney General of Georgia, will
shortly he called upon to defend be-
fore the State Supreme court, the con-
stitutionality of Georgia's inheritance
tax law, which was passed during the
administration of Governor John N.
Slaton and which already has brought
$[110,900?] into the State treasury.

The law was attacked in a case
coming up from Daugherty county
where Sam Mackas, a wealthy citizen,
left an estate valued at $500,000 and
disposed of in a will so [blurry] as to
be almost impossible of construction.

Attorneys representing certain of
the beneficiaries attacked the inheri-
tance tax is on the ground that it is
a property tax instead of a privilege
tax, while the State contended
through Attorney General Walker,
that the tax is purely a privilege tax.
Judge Cox of the Albany circuit up-
held the law, and the case has been
appealed to the State Supreme court.
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IS NEBRASKA`S
YOUNGEST GOV.

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Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 4.—Keith Nev-
ille, aged thirty years, the youngest
governor Nebraska ever had was in-
augurated here today.
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Investigate Deaths
of Oconee Officers.

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TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 3.—At the
request of the governor of South
Carolina, Gov. Fielder today direct-
ed the prosecutor of Union county to
investigate the deaths of two South
Carolina officials, Davis, a sheriff and
Foster, a prison supervisor. The two
officials visited Elizabeth, N. J., re-
cently to arrest a negro wanted in
Oconee county, S. C., on a charge
of murder. They were asphixiated
in an Elizabeth hotel, and Gov. Man-
ning of South Carolina telegraphed
Governor Fielder that the families
of the dead men suspected foul play.
The Elizabeth authorities reported
the deaths as accidents.
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BALDWINS IN PARIS.
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Survivors of Sussex Disaster Com-
fortable and Busy.

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Columbia, Jan. 4.—James Mark
Baldwin and family are safe and
comfortable in their home in Paris.
Dr. Baldwin is very busy with his work
for the wounded, according to let-
ters received by relatives in Colum-
bia. Miss Elizabeth Baldwin has al-
most entirely recovered from in-
juries received in the Sussex disas-
ter.
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NAME DIRECTORS.
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Chamber of Commerce Holds Annual
Meeting Tomorrow.

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Columbia, Jan. 4.—The annual
meeting of the Columbia Chamber of
Commerce will be held in the audito-
rium at [8?] o'clock tomorrow ight.
Directors for the ensuing year will
be elected and other matters of im-
portance will be discussed. The card
sent to members closes with the lines
"Every member is urged to be pres-
ent promptly."

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A HEARING ON
THE LEAK TO
COME FRIDAY

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Washington, Jan. 4.—Public hear-
ings on this Wood resolution for in-
vestigation of charges of 'leak" re-
garding the president's peace note
plans will begin before the house
rules committee tomorrow. Thomas
W. Lawson of Boston and Repre-
sentative Wood and Representative
Gardner will be the first witnesses.

Lawson was suspended by tele-
graph.

The rules committee by a unani-
mous vote prepared for hearings.
The Democrats said they expected
to show neither Lawson, Wood, nor
Gardner had any tangible evidence
of a "leak" and thus the [blurry]
members of the committee would be
justified in reporting the Wood re-
solution unfavorably. The Republi-
cans are obviously pleased over ob-
taining an open hearing and declar-
ed emphatically they would force a
full investigation.
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WILSON NOW KNOWS
PEACE CONDITIONS?

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LONDON, Jan. 3—President Wilson
now knows the peace conditions of the
Teutonic Allies and the Defense Pow-
ers can learn what they are from him.
Count Julius Andrassy, formerly
premier of Hungary, is quoted as as-
serting in a despatch from Budapest,
forwarded to the Central News Agen-
cy by way of Amsterdam. The clai-
ment attributed do Count Andressy
was made in a new year's speech. He
said:

"As the Entente alleges that [our?]
peace proposal was only a maneuver
and was not made with any earnest
desire to bring out peace, I am able
to declare that President Wilson now
knows our peace conditions and the
Entente can learn from the sources."

The version of the Budapest de-
spatch received by the Reuter Tele-
gram company via Amsterdam quotes
Count Andressy as saying that the
peace conditions of the Central Pow-
ers will be communicated to President
Wilson, the quotation being as fol-
lows:

"If the Entente reject our peace
offer only because they maintain that
our offer is not honestly meant, but
is merely a maneuver and that they
cannot enter into negotiations before
knowing our conditios, they can learn
these from President Wilson to whom
they will be communicated."
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THREE NEGRO
DIE IN FIRE

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Nashville, Jan. 4.—Three negro
employes of the Dixie Automobile ex-
change perished when [fire?] destroyed
the building, occupied by that firm
this morning, and 126 automobiles
and trucks were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at thirty five to forty
thousand dollars. Lightning which
struck the building is supposed to
have caused the fire.
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Built First Skyscraper
Now Thought Insane

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CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Frances F.
Owings, known here 20 years ago as
the "skyscraper king," was taken to
the Psychopathic Hospital today to
be examined as to his sanity. A re-
porter making his rounds discovered
Owing's predicament when he was
told by a hospital attendent that
"there is an old man here who thinks
he built the first skyscraper in Chi-
cago."

In the early eighties Owings be-
came the laughing stock of engineers
by proposing to build a 12 story
building. The Bedford building, an
altitudinous marvel of the period,
was the result. In 1892 the 19-story
Masonic Temple was built and Owings
became the "skyscraper king." With
all his revolutionary ideas in architec-
ture, the architect did not prosper
financially and today, broken in
health an purse, he was taken in
charge by the county authorities.
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WANT IRON CLAD LAW
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Columbia, Jan. 4.—In compliance
with a resolution introduced by the
Rev. J. M. Mitchell of Columbia,
at the Baptist State convention at
Greenville December 11-14 providing
that "a commitee of 10 appoint-
ed by the president of the convention
to appear in person before the gov-
ernor and the legislature, or pro-
per committees of that body, present-
ing these resolutions and appealing
to them for the enactment of the
proper law, "for the enforcement of
prohibition," the following committee
has been appointed for that purpose
by T. T. Hyde of Charleston: J. M.
Kinard, charman, Newberry; Col.
R. D. Watson, Ridge Spring; C. D.
Bobo, Laurens; the Rev. G. D.
Knight, Laurens; Joseph Norwood,
Columbia; the Rev. E. M. Light-
foot, Clinton; [D]. H. Hunt, Newberry;
D. A. Onix, Newberry; the Rev. J.
M. Michael, Columbia, and the
Rev. J. D. Huggins, Denmark.
Chairman Kinard will call the com-
mittee together at an early date.

The resolution offered by Mr.
Mitchell, spoken to by him and en-
thusiastically welcomed by others.
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BACK ON MAP.
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Atlanta, Jan. 4.—The classic old
Georgia town of Newman, which has
not enjoyed any fame since Eugene
Grace went home to die from the bul-
let wound inflicted by his wife of leo-
pard [spots?] fame, is again on the map
as the birthplace of Miss Mary Daniel,
a talented and charming girl who is
appearing this week in a vaudeville
theater in Atlanta and scoring a decid-
ed hit. She is the daughter of Former
State Senator W. H. Daniel and her
friends from Newman are helping to
fill the theater at everyone of her per-
formances.

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ARREST OF MODEL`S
SLAYER EXPECTED

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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.—An im-
portant arrest in connection with the
murder in her apartments last week
of Maizie Colbert, the artist's model,
was expected to be made within 24
hours the police announced tonight.
Detectives said that but one link in
the chain of evidence in [blurry] and
that they expect to take the man
into custody shortly, possible tonight.

Although the authorities refused
to reveal the identity of the man
suspected of having knowledge of
the crime, unconfirmed rumors, per-
sisted that he was the wealthy man
from upstate who has been under
surveillance at a local hotel for sev-
eral days. Despite the assertion of
Capt. Tate, of the detective depart-
ment that this man had been cleared
of all suspicion, two men were sent
to his hotel late today to take his
finger prints for comparison with
those found in Miss Colbert's apart-
ment. The result of this comparison
was not made known.

The detectives also refused to re-
veal what additional evidence they
required before making an arrest. It
was reported but not confirmed that
they were awaiting his identification
by sales girls who are said to have
sold him large quantities of perfume
possessing the same odor as that
which scented the man's [hair?] found
in Miss Colbert's apartments. The
man in question is said to be about
middle-aged and to have inherited
nearly a million dollars from his
father. He is well known to many
cities and scores of his friends are
reported to have come to his aid.
According to one of these friends he
had spent large sums of money on
Miss Colbert and was extremely jeal-
ous of her. Both he and the former
manicurist, this friend stated, had
violent tempers and it was his belief
that the woman had been slain in
self-defense during a quarrel. He
said the upstate man had come to
Philadelphia in response to a letter
from a lawyer, who wrote that the
woman was planning legal action,
[possibly?] a breach of promise suit.
But instead of seeing the lawyer, he
was said to have gone directly to the
girl's apartment and the quarrel fol-
lowed.

Capt. Tate will "[blurry] to" his
theory that the murder was commit-
ted by a degenerate and declares
that the man from the interior of
the state has given a satisfactory ex-
planation of his whereabouts lst
Friday when the crime is believed to
have occurred.

A dozen or more young men, some
prominent, who were known to have
been acquainted with Miss Colbert,
were questioned by the detectives to-
day but it was said that none of
them could throw any light upon the
mystery.

Anonymous friends are reported to
have expressed the with that they be
allowed to pay the expenses incident
to Miss Colbert's funeral, which will
be held tomorrow.
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RECORD MARKET
IN LIVE STOCK

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Chicago, Jan. 4.—More livestock
was marketed here during 1916 than
in any previous year according to the
annual report of the Chicago union
of stock yards. The report asserted
the marketing amounted to $3,509,-
620,000. This is more than 188,900,000
in excess of last year.
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German Report Charges
Cruelty to Prisoners

--------------------
BERLIN, Jan. 3.—The condition of
German [civil?] and war prisoners in
Morocco and Algeria is described in
a [memorial?] issued by the German
government on the sanitary situation
in African camps as one of terri-
ble suffering, says the Overseas News
Agency. Quoting from the report
the agency says:

In certain camps such as [Har-
lau?], the prisoners were guarded by
colored troops with brutality char-
acteristics of the [Harlau?] negroes in
the camp at [blurry], in the french
colony of Daghomey, colored and
French colonial soldiers brutally
tortured prisoners with the [blurry]
and even with thumb screws.

The German memorial says the
German prisoners were undressed,
compelled to kneel and were whip-
ped by negroes."
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MARKETS
Liverpool & New York Cotton.
Furnished by J. L. Watkins & Co.,
386 News Building

NEW YORK COTTON


High Low Close Close
Jan 17.37 17.2[3?] 17.35
Mar 17.63 17.44 17.60
May 17.56 17.70 17.85
July 17.89 17.73 17.88
Aug
Oct 16.77 16.50 16.75
Dec 14.41 14.08 16.[83?]
N. Y. spols 17.65
[column 7]

[headline, spans cols. 6-7]
MATCHEN FALLS TO TEUTONS,
RUSSIAN ABILITY TO HOLD
DOBRUDJA FOOTING DOUBTFUL

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Believed That Time Had Been
Given for the Russians to Remove
the Valuable Stores—No Impor-
tant Operations on Othe Front.

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The loss of Matchen makes it ap-
pear doubtful whether the Russians
will be able to retain their remain-
ing footing in Dobrudja. An En-
tente dispatch indicated the expec-
tation that the Russians would
probably be forced to abandon it.
The Russians sill hold Braila, west
of the Danube, but it's considered
doubtful whether they can hold out
much longer. A dispatch said, how-
ever, it was believed the prolonged
defenses of the city had given time
for the removal of valuable stores
of provision and material.

The Russo-Rumanian defense on
the western Moldavian frontier seem-
ed tiring. Petrograd claimed suc-
cesses south of the [Botocku?] moun-
tain in the wooded Carpathians.

No important operations are re-
ported on other fronts.
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London View.

LONDON, Jan. 4.—The capture of
[Metchin?] is regarded here as ending
the defense of Dubrodja. The Russians
held the Matchen bridgehead
to protect Braila from the rear.
Nothing now remains to them ex-
cept a narrow strip of land, between
the marshes which carries the high-
way to Braila.

The Teutons are now in a position
to push their guns within eight
miles of Braila. It is assumed here
if the invaders separate Braila the
Russian line west of the Danube will
be withdrawn. It is taken for grant-
ed that prolonged reference enabled
the Russians to remove grain and
other material from Braila.
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ALLIES DRAFTING
REPLY TO WILSON

--------------------
LONDON, Jan. 3.—Reuters Tele-
gram company tonight publishes the
following concerning the reply of the
Entente Allies to President Wilson's
recent note suggesting that the bel-
ligerants state their terms of peace.

"The document is still undergoing
slight modification of the draft and
will not be published until a day or
two after it is in the hands of the
President.

"The note will be more positive than
the reply to Germany and is expected
to indicate in more precise fashion
the only prliminaries upon which
the Allies are prepared to negotiate.
In again going over the ground of
the responsibity for the war it is
likely that the Allies will emphasize
the only possible [redress?] for peace, thus
contrasting sharply the German note,
which purposely was of a negative
character."
--------------------
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Coincident
with the receipt here today of confi-
dential advices giving the broad out-
lines of the Entente reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's note proposing a dis-
cussion of peace terms, Col. E. M.
House, the President's friend and ad-
viser, arrived at the White House.
The colonel's last visit was followed
by the dispatch of the President's
note.

At the same time press dispatches
from London told of a speech by
Count Julius Andrassy, former pre-
mier of Hungary, stating that the
Central Powers had given or would
give President Wilson a statement of
their peace terms, and that the En-
tente Allies could obtain them from
him.

Officials of the White House and
the state department would not dis-
cuss these developments, further than
to say definately that no further move
on the part of the American govern-
ment would be determined until the
Entente reply was received.
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New York May Again
Vote on Woman Suffrage

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ALBANY, Jan. 3.—The New
York legislature at the opening session
today created a committee to investi-
gate the motion picture industry with
a view to increasing the State's reve-
nue by taxation and received a reso-
lution favoring "re[blurry] of the
votes for women" proposal to the
voters next November. Platforms of
both the Democratic and Republican
organizations favor the resolution.

Gov. Whitman in his annual mes-
sage favored extending local option to
cities.
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Y. M. C. A. AT FRONT
--------------------
Paris, Dec. [15?].—(Associated
Press Correspondence)—The Young
Men's Christian association has
pushed its work right up to the
battle lines. The refreshment dug-
outs where hot drinks are served out
to the men. It is now often to hear the
enemy that great precautions have to
be taken lest is hould be discover-
ed. Some of these dugouts are in
the debris of recently captured posi-
tions. One of them is so near a very
[blurry] point that when the wounded
were carried past to the dressing sta-
tion a short time ago the Y. M. C.
A. was able to serve them with tea
and cream.
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WAR EXPERIENCES
--------------------
Atlanta, Jan. 4.—Bill Seabrook of
Atlanta, former newspaper man, who
drove an American ambulance for six
months on the Verdun firing line, has
written the story of his experiences as
the front in a newspaper serial form.
The articles will begin to appear in
the Sunday edition of the Atlanta
Journal of January 14 and in a few
other large cities of the Southeast.
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SHOE IMPORTS
--------------------
London, Dec. 18.—(Associated
Press Correspondence)—During the
year just closed he imports of boots
and shoes from abroad, exceeded in
value the record for the biggest
year of the American shoe invasion
of [1895-7?], while the exports of
British made shoes exceeded by more
than $5,000,000 the biggest total of
pre-war times.

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