Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VOLUME IL ANDERSON, S. C THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1915. ?i?t?S?A^T7. TE?TOA WARS TOFA? RUSSIANS SLOWLY RETREAT ING BEFORE STUBBORN ATTACK OF GERMANS FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACKS Austrians Claim all Italian Attacks m South Have Been Repulsed. London, Aug. 4.-The Austro Germnne, whose atm is to capture Wsrcaw, and if possible a large part of the F.niBBian army are declared by Berlin and Vienna to be continuing their successes throughout Polish regions In North Poland. The Teutons claim to have drove the Russians back upon ? advanced positions at Lomza. The Teutons have crossed the Narew river near Ostrolenka, after vicious fighting in which they captured a large number ot prisoners and cannon. The Aus trians claim to hove captured the western portion of Ivangorod for tress . Other Teutonic Buceesse? are claim ed but the Russians at ill points are continuing strong rear guard ac tions, which, though declared to be merely to allow thc main Russian ar mies to retreat, seem more like the strong counter offensive. In the west comparative calm pre vails, except in Argonne and Vosges where the French claim they repuls ed^ tho German, attempts to. recapture lost ground or take new trenches. The same kind of fighting seems to continue in the Austro-Itall'an theatre with Vionna tonight claiming that the Austrians have repulsed vs jrious Italian attacks. From a conference between the min isters of the allies and the Greek government new moves of the great est importance are expected in that section. Petrograd, Aug. 4.-It was official ly announced tonight that the Rus sians have retired from the Klonle Nadaraxyn line on Warsaw. London, Aug: 4.-Rearguard fight ing of the Russians northeast of War saw bas proved so effective that the Germans seeni he'd up. In thc south Field Marshall yon Mackensen's forces passing north from Lublin are being badly battered. The only Teutonic progress on the eastern front ls to ward Riga in the extreme north and before Ivangorod. Warsaw is still holding out. -Hope that the Polish capital may yet be saved is becoming stronger among the allies. The delay 1B accounted for by the German press, which states that,with daily lengthen ing communications, thc problem of transport of reinforcements becomes more-complicated. Newspapers here, however, don't Ignore the efficacy or the 'FAisslan rearguard actions. The German emperor and empress report ed on the way, to Warsaw for a triumphal' entry, accordingly bave had to postpone lt. An optimistic prediction that If the city can hold out a week longer, evac uation may be avoided, comes .froin Warsaw. The dispatch waa written four days' ago. Conditions are pic tured aa fairly normal, although thou sands of civilians have flee'. A German submarine ha? auak the Belgian steamer rvor.uhan^isl. Nine of the crew landed. Evacuation Reported. Berlin, An ;? Wireless to Say vllle-The Ovev**as News Agency oaya tne Russian legation at the Hagu? has ollclally announced that Rd?VfimS have evacuated Warsaw on account ot a lack of ammunition. The r Vistula bridges v/ere ordered blown np. .Tb? agency saye'the investment of the fortress of Ivangorod is pro gressing'. Eight outer forts have been stormed. The possibility of the Russian forces inside escaping ls diminishing. The Russian official statement to day .docs not refer to actual ?vacu ation of Warsaw. (There 1? no con firmation of thc above.) Americans in Fear Trouble WI Washington, Aug. 4.-Msytorena, tbe Villa governor of Sonora, lc pre paring to withdraw his troops frc ti the Yao.ua valley. They have been protecting' American settlers against the Indians, fiisytorena has declared IS SAY AW IS LL SOON 27 UVES LOST IN CLOUDBURST AT ERIE, PENN. PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT THREE MILLION DOLLARS MANY ARRESTED FOR LOOTING New York Abo Suffered From Heavy Rains-Two Known Dead, > Erie, Pa., Aug. 4.-Twenty-seven are known dead and the property IOSB estimated at three million in thc mile tong wreckage strewn path ot' last nights flood here which demolished three hundred houBes and fifty stores. Very little- wreckage had been moved tonight and it is believed morn bodies.will be found. There were twenty arrests tonight for looting. Erie. Penn., Aug. 4.-Daylight this morning found the streets flooded with running water. Probably twenty five lives have been lost. The prop erty damage te.aatimnted'f&?S3:OO0, 000. Scores of-homes ami dpiens o? factories 'wero swept away. Hun dreds arc homeless. An unprecedent ed storm swept Erie and its immedi ate vicinity last nig!ii. An all day rain culminated in a cloudburst. Three inches of rain tell in six hours.' Glenwood dam, three miles above thc city, broke. A huge wall of water rushed through thexlty. Four blocks on either side of Mill Creek were flooded from slr. inches to fifteen feet. Today telephone, street car, gas and electric lighting services are paralyzed. There is danger from high tension electric currents. Ouards were thrown about the flooded sec tion. The details of drownings and rescues are meagre. One body was recorred. Three serious accidents wero reported. Two rescuers had legs brokvr when struck by debris. A dozen ' r more passenger trains aro stalled. I'bey can't get away for two days. It rained all night. Piles of debris stand fifteen feet high in In tersecting streets. Water poured into homes and stores and caused the greatest damage. At 9 o'clock, fourteen bodies were in the temporary morgue. Four were Identified. The flooded district is a mile long. * - Two Known Dead in If. T. New York. Aug. 4.-Streets were flooded, surface and elevated traffic crippled, wires tangled, trees up rooted, cellar:', flooded, by a torrential downpour here this morning, accom panied by a sixty m.io gale. There were nearly three Inches of rain in four hours at Sandy Hook and one and a half bern. Vessels were held at the harbor entrance all night. The schooner M. V. Chase waa sunk. The capta.a and onn sailor wero drowned. Four were "ei cued. lt is difficult to estimate the dam ?t? on the northern New Jersey coast. Seabright was again battered. Parts of .New York and Brooklyn streets are two to three feet under water. Coney Island and Sc. Gale report a complete tleup of transit facilities. There were no fatalities in thia city. DEFENSE PART OF NEXT MESSAGE _; Cornish., N. H., Aug. 4.-President Wilson plans to make national oc ?ense one of tho principal subjects of his neat message to c^ByTre&a, al though awaiting reports from .Sec retaries Garrison a??t Daniels before deciding finally OP fi? policy. Yaqui Valley xen Troops heave that tr the American marines wore forced to land the responsibility will He with the. Carranza forces, now moving into iue valley. General Fnh ston, the border force commander, reported Mayortena'a .plans and fear ed depredations by the Indians. Becker Execution Witnesses and Priest With Him to the Last Thirty-odd witnesses, fourteen of I them newspaper men, were permitted I to see the execution of Charles Becker at Sing Sing prison. They were lcd I down a stairway from another part of tho prison al 6 o'clock on the doorland he waa doing this thc instant death j the current was turned on. The morning of July 3 from which they chamber. Father Caahln. a ?prison chaplain, .n-HH with Becker up to his death. The priest Blood bwore him repeat ing prayers in whlcji Keeker joined, SHIPPING BILL LETTER READ IN ABSENCE AT N. C. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STRESSES NEED OF MERCHANT MARINE Says We Can Get South Ameri can Trade By Making Goods They Want. Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 4.-Secre tary M?:Adoo, in a letter given out to night'at ? banquet of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce in his. absence, declared that if American cotton man ufacturers were prepared now to turn out the kind of cotton goods the peo ple br Central and South A"merica want "we could undoubtedly take and keep the vast amount of trade in cot ton goods our fonUgn competitors have been1 obliged to abandon. " He declared that. for tho . United States to have the South American ? rade of world trade it will be nb ?c.utoly .necessary to have an Amer ican merch?bt marine. He urged, the importance of a ship ping bill similar to the one which failed at the last session of congress He said one of the.leading Southern cotton manufacturers had declared he was afraid to risk capital In produc ing special goods for South Amerlcn because - be feared whe ? the war ls overt orelgn over foreign steamship companies will raise their rates over night in order to discriminate against Ameri can trade. 10 PROTEST AGAINST iEI? (IIA Department Preparing Pro test Against French Prize Court Findinga. Washington. Aug. 4.-Tho state department is preparing to protest to France against the French prise court decision today upholding tba French seicure ot the American steam er Dacia which bad been bought by a ci Uren of the United States from a German corporation and changed to American registry after the war. be M>n. HA?TIEN GENERAL RESIGNS COMMAND Gen. Blot, Leader Federal Forces, Quits in Interest of Peace. I Washington, Aug. 4.-General Blot, ommander-in-chief of the forces of thc late President Uullanme of Haytl, has acceded to Admiral Caperton's first steps to restore peace by re signing and heading a movement to organize a commission to admini^ter clvil affairs. The commission sent to Cape Huyicn by t'aperton had instruc tions to prevail on thc northern force? to disarm and bring Blot and Bobo to Port Au Prince to cooperate in the peace movement. Bobo hasn't yield ed. HIB forces are reported threaten ing Cape Hay tien. Admiral Benson, acting secretary of the navy, said that with the arrival of the Con necticut at Port Au Prince, thirteen hundred marines and bluejackets could be landed in an emergency. Bebels Enter ( ape Ha?tien. Capt. Haytlen. Aug. 4.-Gov ernment officials here have fled to Fort- Liberte on the dispatch boat Pacific. Revolutionists are beginning to enter the city. Marines have been landed from thc United States gun boat Nashville to maintain order. POSSE SEARCHING FOR BANK ROBBER Bandit Held Up Cashier and Took $3,000.00 From Bank of Rockmart, Ga. rbckmnrt, Ga., Aug. 4.-Posses tonight are noarching the mountains near hero for the bandit who today held up Howard T. Pam bro UR h as sistant cashier, and robbed the Bank of Rockmart of throe thousand five hundred dollars. Three have been arrested on suspicion as accomplices. U. S. TROOPS PROTE Al CT Forces Retired After Diving Vflla Troops Back Into Nogales. Nogales, Ariz., Aug.. After an hours fighting, during which the at tacking Carranza forces drovo the Villa defenders back into Nogales, Sonora, just across the border, tho attackers retired tonight. Auly three bullets are known to bavo crossed | th? border. A regiment of United States Infan try, two troops of cavalry and a ma chine gan platoon lined the border j to protect the American side. WOK'S REPLY TO ENGLAND IS ABOUT READY TONE INDICATES HE AGREES WITH BRITISH VIEW IN PART EXCHANGE NOTES WILL CONTINUE Controversy Has Reached Aca demic Stage-Arbitration fe Likely Final Resort. Washington, Aug. 4.-President Wilson's reply to th0 British notes ls about ready. It admits the unusu al conditions that Great Britain* con tends are the basis of exceptional ac tion. He will continue to contest the legality of taking Bhlps on tho high seas between neutral ports. It ls understood that the American government will differentiate between ships on the , high seas and ships which go to British ports or attempt to run the blockade. The argument that American commerce has not suf fered is also contented. All quarters seemed agreed that the controversy has reached the stage of academic discussion, with some evidences ot a trend toward ultimate submission to arbitration. Washington. Aug, 4.-State depart ment officials are preparing an answer to Great Britain's, repl'u^ to the lat est American representations against Interferences with commerce of neutral coua.ries. Great Britain in notes published today, refuse to ac cept the American contention that the orders in council are Illegal. It Jus tifies the British course as wholly within international law and will continue to enforce the orders with every effort to avoid embarrassment to neutrals. It denies that International law Is violated by blockading neutral ports to cut off enemy's commerce with foreign countries abd to refuse to allow free passage of goods originat ing in Germany and territory unuer Gorman control. Tho reply omb* ??es two notes, to gether with correspondence over the American steamer Nochen. Rottet dam for United States, with goods of German origin. It totabi seven thousand words. One t."??'j supple ment replies to tho American caveat, giving notice that thc United States would not recognise tho orders in council lu lieu ot international law ss a defense In prize court proceedings. The United States is invited, how ever, to - submit prise court declara tions held unjust to arbitration. GERM Ab SAYS T NOT VU RESERVE BOARD SAYS BUSINESS IS IMPROVING MEASURE OF IMPROVEMENT WILL BE KNOWN AFTER HARVEST BIG WAR ORDERS BROUGHT BOOM Chairman Harding Saya Cotton Tragedy of 1914 Will Not Be Repeated. Washington, Aug. 4.-General business conditions throughout the country continue to show Improve ment but until tho crops are harvest ed, the fll measure of the improvement cannot be judged, the federal reserve bulletin said today. Crop prospects are unusually bright. In several re serve districts war orders "vc brought a boom to many induit:!0 W. H. G. Harding of the Coderai board in an analysis of conditions confronting this year's cotton crop in todays L ?uo of the bulletin, said' there was every reason to talleve that ample funds to handle * this year's crop and market lt all. Shipping, financial and all other conditions sro much better than last year. "The cotton tragedy jf nineteen fourteen" won't be repealed, he debared. He warned southern people that in their desire to see a broad market es tablished for cotton that they must do nothing to embarrass Wilson in international affairs. Wilson owes higher duty to the south and to the whole country than the establishment of cotton values and may be trusted to do his duty as he sees it regardless o fothers. He called attention to the fact that complications with foreign countrlea would not enhance the value of cot ton. LIGHTNING HIT BED OCCUPANTS UNHARMED Mother and Two Children Mirac ulously Escaped Death When Bolt Strack. Greenville, Aug. 4.-Within a lit tle cottage on the city's edge last Saturday night lay a mother and two children, huddled in bed. Through the window could be seen wicked tongues of lightning licking the heavens, and heavy peals of thunder sent chills Into the weaklings. Sud denly, a bolt of lightning wrecked the bed, but apparently by divine* providence the lives were "eved. Ex cept for the fright the mother and her children were not hurt. The belated news ot this mlralu lous escape from death reached this newspaper through an informant who vouched for the accuracy of the story. EMPEROR WILLIAM TO RECALL GOVERNOR GENERAL OF BELGIUM Amsterdam. Aug. 4.-According to the Echoe Beige, Emperor William ba sdeclded to recall General Von Biasing. German governor general of Belgium. Garment Workers Win. New York. Aug. 4.-A strike of sixty thousand garment workers was averted todsy when employers grant ed a partly Increase In wages and other concessions. Deny Heavy Expi Indicates Good* _ Washington, Aug. 4.-The state de partment has assembled a mass of statistics M refute the British claim that Increased-exportations from the (Jolted States to Holland and Scan dinavian countries lndicstes that ALSO SAYS ACT WAS NOT VIOLATION OF PRUSSIAN AMERICAN TREATY IS WILLING TO PAY FOR SHIP Provided Payment b Not CfanM ered as Satisfying Violation of U. S. Righto. Washington, Aug. 4.-Germany's note on tho United States' protest over the sinking o? the American ship William P. Frye, made publie tonight, reiterates Germany's conten tion that the Prussian-American treaty was not violated in. Rinking the Bhlp and neither was International ?aw. Germany also reiterates her willingness to pay for the ship pro vided the payment win not bo viewed os satisfaction for the violation of . American rights. If this is unsat isfactory Germany suggests arbitra tion at The Hague. Germany is will ing for two experts to fix the valus of the Prye. It is unofficially believed the Unit ed States will accept as payment whatever the two experts think right with the express provision that this ls not a waiver of the treaty rights for which tho United States contends. Germany contends that the treaty provides only that thc United States and Germany pay each other for sink ing each other's ships carrying con- ? traband in wartime. Berlin, Aug. 4. - No* **reports'~a>s available regarding the cases of tho American steamship Leeleenaw which the British steamers Iberian and Or duna, sunk or attacked by Ge rm sn submarines, and the capture of the. American ship Lass O'Ballan. Re ports on the Iberian and Leeleenaw will probably not be received from submarine commanders for another ten days, lt is stated. Meantime, the American embassy has put a request, for . indemnity for the Leeleenaw BB a parallel case tn the Wm. P. Frye, sunk .on January 28th. In the Fryo case, the German government suggested that differ ences regarding the treaty rights be arbitrated. If accented it is believed this will at once cover tbs Leeleenaw case. A second category of maritime cases ls also occupying the attention of the American embassy and- tue German foreign office. These .avise from German warships In the Bal tie bringing American ships Into Swuv/ munde. Tho portland. and Wunsire are tied up there. The Portland was examined and released. She burned so much fuel oil sba can't reach'her destination. She can't get oil in Germany ' and may be towed - to Sweden. The Wunsire ls loaded wth peas and beans. The sheriff . seized the cargo, saying It belonged to Germans. Daughter of American Ambas sador Weds Bttten Man London. Aug. 4.-Miss Katherine Alice Page, daughter of Ambassador Page, waa married this afternoon In Oe chapel o? the F oyal Ht. Jamaa palace to Charles Creely Loraine;, of Boston. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Boyd Carpenter, sub-dean ot Westminster abbey, assisted by Her. Edgar D. Sheppard, sub-dean ot Chapel Royal. The bride was given away by her father. Her brother .Frank Page, was Loralng's beat man. The wedding was simple because of the war. Ther? .were about a hun dred guests Including government of ficials and all the ambassadors. >rts To Holland i t?o to Germany some of these goods ara going to Ger many. These figures Will go in the draft of the reply to the British notes which wilt be submitted to President Witscr. Tho United States con tend* that even British exports to th-se .jountries sliow big increases. in Londou.