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?be VOLUME II. _ ANDERSON, S. C SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1915. i ?. ?^B?mm?wm??mm?msB^?m???ms??m?mmmmmmm ' , _ NUMBER 197. HOPE TUESGAPE F MILITARY EXPERTS MAINTAIN MUSCOVITES' POSITION STILL CRITICAL BATTLfc: RAGING SOUTH OF VILNAI Von Hindenberg Making Deter mined Effort to Destroy Army That Defended Vilna. " London, Sept. 20.-While Petro grad expresses confidence in the ability of the Russians to extricate themselves, and tho German official report says merely that "the cttack against the enemy is proceeding," military experts maintain that the position of tho RnaBian armies re treating from Vilna is dangerous. In a battle, perhaps tho most important of tho eastern campaign, now under way south ot Vilna, von Hindenburg is attempting to destroy the anny j that defended that. city. . Prince Leopold1 ot Bavaria is ap- ' prooching the railroad south of Lida near the Pripet Marshes. South of the marshes tho Russians still barrase | tho Austro-Germana ' in Vplbyhia and Galicia. The Germans report that their guns are aiding tho Austrians in the bom bardmei.. ol Serbian cities across the | Danube. The bombardment continues in tho weat and thc British fleet ls still shelling the Belgian coast. Attempts are being made in Bul garia to Induce the Ving to join the i entente but it is believed that tho j ralilway agreement with Turkey binds j Bulgaria to neutrality. Sepl,. #0,;?~j?io Russian J meed by >t|m^?3erman en circling movement, since Vilna fell is established at from 250.000 to 500,7 000. The conditions under which'.he Russians aro attempting to escape are strikingly similar to to those at Warsaw and may precipitate ono ot the greatest battles on the eastern front. The British press accepts the Ger man claim that Vilna has fallen, al though Petrograd has not officially confirmed tho report. Concern is expressed for the re tiring army. As far os can be Judged, Field Marshal von Hinden burg's troops have flung a loon about the Ralstan B over a front of some two hundred mile'i and - they are not only in the Russia a rear, but are seri' ously menacing the single railway line and the few. available wagon roads stretching to tho southward. . AB to War sr w the number of Rus sian prisoners left behind is small; Apparently the only way the retiring forces, can lighten the seomingly bad situation is by a counter attack. Entente Finances. Paris, Sept. 20.-Pierre L. Bark, tlie Russian minister arrived here and conferred with tho French fl nacno, Ribot. HO will subaequntiy meet Reginald McKenna, tho British chancellor of the exchequer. Tho fi nancial problem of the entente pow ers is being taken up. Conscription Talk Again. Paris. Sept. 20.- -John Hodg.o a member of. the British parliament, speaking at tho first o ta aeries meet ings organized here to explain to French workers what England is do lng in the war, declared that Kng (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) i >.' - .' >' mKCHANGl IN ISENHO GRAND JURY ?ETURNS TF SLAYERS OF SHERIFF HC COMMUNITY SEEMS? IN FAVOR Ol Wlnnsboro, S. G.. Sent. 20.-Tho Fairfield conoty f,-rand jury consumed tao morning here examining witnesses in th tase - Of Brnost lonhower, 'Jame* Bawls Sad Jestu? Morrison, al leged principals. ia the shooting af fray 4a front ot tho Winnsboro court house on June 14, ot thia year whic'i resulted in the death o'? Sher iff A. D. Hood. Jule Smth. a no?ro accused of criminal assault, Clyde I^euhower, brvlhor of -Ernest Isen bower oed Rawley Bou 1 ware, a rural A tine bill WAR found .against the three men by the grand Jary on June ? as for tb* murder of the negro, Jul? Smith, lt is thought that a true bill FORD PLANNING NEW SUBMARINE Auto King to Confer With Secre tary Daniels About New Submersible Boat. Washington, Sept. 20.-Henry Ford of Detroit, will see Secretary Daniels at the navy department Wed nesday, lt ia understood he wants l<> ilk about a plan ho has evolved ?. a small submarine. GIVES REASONS FOR RULES OF RESERVE BOARD HARDING TALKS TO RALEIGH CHAMBER OF COM MERCE EXPLAINS RATES FOR REDISCOUNTS Says Some Banks in South Charge Fifty and Even Hundred - Percent on Leans. Raleigh, Sept. 20.-Facts about the high interest rates chaTgcd by na tional banks throughout the country and' particularly in thc south, were disclosed by W. P. C. Harding, fed eral reserve head, in a speech tonight, before the Raleigh chamber of com merce. / In explaining /Hie reserve board's regulations granting preferential re discount rates tb cote's soeurou by staple commodity 'warehouse re ceipts' p'rovtded' the* waker, had boen charged not more than six per cent interest. Harding declared' that banks in the south were charging rates often aa high as fifty per cent, aud in one instance in Texas rates were reported in excess of hundred per cent. This information, he said, came in sworn reports that the office of tho comptroller currency. From tho re port of June twenty third, he said, it appears that there were five banks In Alabama whose . maximum rates average twenty-six per cent. The rate In one case .was'sixty per cent. In Arkansas one bank admitted making a loan at a hundred and twenty per cent. In Georgia eleven banks wera found where the average maximum reached thirty. No bank in South Carolina admit ted eli urging more Mian fifteen. These high rates are .not confined to the south. t MRS. STRONG FREED OF H?RDER CHARGE Justice Finds Sha Killed Brother in-Law in Defense of Self and Stator. Yaxoo City, Sept. 20.-After a pre liminary hearing MTS. Robert Strong was freed of the charge of killing her brother-in-law, Carnet Nolan, a prom inent planter. Tito Justice said tho evidence showed that Mrs. Strong shot Nolan in defense of her own Uf? and that of his sick wife. ioFVEmm WER TRIAL lUE BILL AGAIN ALLEGED lOD BUT SYPAMTHY OF OVERWHELMINGLY ? ACCUSED. will. be. returned thts pfternc-on for tho murder of the other three mon. It la known hers thatr Solicitor Hen ry will ask tho judge for a ch?n?;o of Venue to either .York or Lancaster counties on the allegation that the state cannot receive a fair trial, be cause of the Intense sympathy felt for the men by fc'ie cltleona of Fair field county. It is'said that a Uko de ?/e.o of sympathy 'la mnnifoSTJxl for Tsenhower, Rawla and Morrison fa? Chester county. It ls believed that Mexican Haiden Tho" stars on this r^iotograoh Iudi cata the Mexican raiders who wer? captured by United States t.-oops aud Texas rarigcrs after tiley had bumed' ASKS U, S. AID Viscount Bryce Appeals to U. SA to Usc Influence With Germany j to Have Turkish Massa crea of Christians Stopped. Londfc, Sept. 20.-Viscount Byrce, formerli Britta h ambassador to the] United Spites has sont tho Associated > Pjfess apples that America try to I'ajpp Ute ?aufehter- of Armenians. &g?ali^/ftW?^that j&H&&*oM f ginning cr the wir Turkey , has been| carrying out atplan of deliberate ex termination of the Christian popula tion in A&ta Minor and Armenia, kill ing men t* military age and elzlng the younger women and children for slaves in Turkish harems. In concluding his appeal Bryce said: "Only Germany can stop the massacres. Would not an expression of American public opinion, voicing the conscience of neutral nations lead Germaay to check the Turkis"* gov ernment?" ISM'S PROSPERITY OTPS UPON MiS I {^resident Through Secretary Gives Opinion on Cotton Situation -Answers McLaurin. Columbia, Sept. 20.--"Tho presi dent feels that the whole maintenance'1 of tho cotton situation depends di rectly and immediately upon the Southern bankers and they have them selves to blame if it does' not come out satisfactorily," says J, P. Tumul ty, secretary to President Wilson, in a letter to Jrihn L. McLaurin, State wa:-.house com missioner. "The president," says the letter, "lins received your letter ot Septem ber 15 and hos been greatly interested j ni reading lt. He asks mc to suggest: that you emphasize Uie letter that ; he wrote to Mr. Harding, and which i Bar. Harding read in his speech at1 Blriniugftam, Ala." Mr? Mci.auria left yesterday for; Atlanta, where ho will this week de j liver an address on thc cotton ware hous system to a gathering of Geor gia farmers and melness, men, which' baa been called by C. B. Barratt, president ot thc National Farmers' Union. On.,September 15 Mr? McLaurin sent the following lotter to President Wilson: "You aro so generous itt.the letter read by Vr. Harding in h? Birming ham speech that I feel that you should be pro.nptly advised ot' a sit uation now ponding. . . To Maintain Pricer*'\ "The qulci advance in coVnfl/ig due primarily more to that yetier^and tho i statements of Messrs. McAdoo -und I Harding than to the admitted short ? crop. This will inter sustain prices, if there ls no combination br moneyed interests to force cotton on the mar ket. "Last spring the New York banks freely loaned 7 cents per pound when the market price waa mucPv lower than >w. The same banka are rofustng to loan cents. This.is a very ort crrtjt. and at If? o nts a pound 111 not bring what the last crop did ! to the producers. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.) i Captured After "Sf a railroad bridj|e < Urreda. twelve' mile? from Brownsville. R ?idents of Brownsville nndj*vic laity aro armed even going' so fjjt; a? to carry their American Who Carried Metsage From Austrian Ambassador De- j clares He Wa? Ignortant of Let- ! ter's Contents. Now York, Archibald, tho dent who carri Ambassador iwiiiest for ?dati.menl ?lei 20 .--Janies F. J. ^bierieas. correapon- 1 thc message from ! which led to thu | issued a ' ..on Hived-, to break tlie neutrality laws. He de clared be had no '.Knowledge -?f tho. contents. of the Dumba letter :s it j was given him openly on Ute stearn-, era gangplank and ho supposed re- j ferred to his own work. He said that going as -?ar correspondent, he' sought letters of recommendation. Secret service men who Interviewed him, he said, lad asked him if ho luid boen giwn a gold headed cano tQ delia r. New York, Sept. 19.-James F. J. Archibald, tho American correapon- j dent, i?temeptod by tito British -while carrying a message for Hw ? AuBtro-ltungarlan ambassador Dum ba, to Vienna, arrived on tho liner Rotterdom. Secret service mou boarded the vessel and queutlonel him. Leaving quarantine, Archibald said did nm know anything of the situation hero and if a prosecution of him wasi contemplated, it was "unjust," as he j took Dumba's letter without knowl edge of Ita contents ar.-' "ontirely j unwittingly." Ho will go to Wash? ! Jugton soon. Dariba Leaves au Rotterdam. New York,, Sept. 20.-Tho Auatrp Hungarlan Ambassador Duraba, whoso recall has been asked by tho | state government. Taps reserved pas sage on tho s!camer Rotterdam, sall- j .lng September 28.' Common Courtesy For Dumbs. Washington, Sept. 20.-Tho only recognition of Dumba's lotter to Sec retary Lansing will- bo au official acknowledgement. It is stated that the state department will enter Into a discussion believing that tbe letter waa written merely for public con sumption. I Iii CAUSE ARREST OF J. 0. ROCKEFELLER, JR. Representative of Mme Workers' Union Admits Matter is Un der Consideration. Denver, Sept. 20.-Winiam DJo mond. representativo Of tte Ihterna ? tiona! Organization of. Mine Workers I ! admitted that the question ot John ?. I Rockefeller. Jr. 'a arrest in connection with tho recent strike disorder? would j be discussed on the arrival or A. M. Belcher, counsel for tho organisation, j hero, tbjnorrow. According to a Trinidad dispatch' Rockefeller today visited the ?ceno pf tl-.? laidlow battle. and Derwin d and | Tabasco camps. talking to tho rain oro. J. D. Jr., In Colorado Trinidad, Colo., Sept. 20.-J< Rockefeller, Jr., arrived he-re t* inspect properties of the Colon .1 and Iran company. ?U-D. ay to > Fu* iurning a Bridge jj* '_?t_ ^-iS mw" mbk' ? S? ? la rifles with them at work. They fear a concerted Mexican raid or an up rising of tho Mexicans in Brownsville who outnumber thc whit? two to ona. SHY HESPERIAN STRUCK ll MINE German Admiralty Has Reports Of All Submarines Out at Time of Incident-Blames Non-Ger man Mtne for Disaster. Berlin, Sept. 20.-The dorman ad miralty is now certain tho Allan lluor ! !Le cp er lau was not destroyed hy a! German submarine. Tba Associated Press has been Informed thai all sub marines out at the . I hue nave return ed and lt is stated that none of them torpedoed tho ship. The admiralty ls convinced that the disaster was duo to a floating non German mino. It is pointed out that a mine, pai.ited green and white, and declared not German waa driven ashore on thc Irish coast a few days ago. II. 8. Accepts Statement. ? Berlin. Sept. 20.-Both the Hes perian and Orduna cases ar? regard ed settled and an agreement with America on the Arabic incident will oad the submarine controversy. It ia stated unofficially that lt is l. el je ved Washington will accept tko] German statement that the Hesperi an war mined and not the victim of a torpedo. lt is understood hero that Ambassador Bernstorff has reached a complete understanding with Secretary Lansing. It is be lieved Cont the report of the subma rine commander that tho Orduna | sought to escape has settled tho In cident. PROMINENT MEXICAN REFUGEEJS_C?P?URED ?en. Lucio Blanco Held By Ob rcgon-Had Been in San An tonio Until Recently. Son Antonio, Sept. 20.-General .icio Bianco, a prominent Mexican liitary figure, has boen captured and held prisoner by General Obregon, according to an officia' C?rranla dis patch from Vera Crux. Blanco waa reeehtlly in San An tonio aa a refugee and left tan days ago for El raso. XOTTKAN ERB HAS CHANCE FOR RECOVERY New York. Sept. 20.-Newman Erb. tho financier, ls reported to havo an excellent chance to recover from tba effects ot two pois ? tableta swallow ed by mistake last Tuend*" while at bia home at Deal, N. J., passing through tho final boura of the crisis period. Doctors say he will undoubt edly Tocover unless signa ot the pres ence of a considerable quantity of poison in bis system aro ?bown In the next 18 hours. Strike Called Off. Bristol, Conn., ?opt. 20.-Tho strike at tho New Departure Manu facturing company was settled today when employes accepted a compro mise offer of a no-hour weak with 44 hours* pay. Tho 1,000 employes will roturo to work tomorrow. Culebra Mildes Again. Panama, Sept. 20.--Anot or .slide has occurred in the Culebra ?ut. It will block the Panama canal 'traffic four days. FOUR F-4 VICTIMS ARE IDENTIFIED I Nine Unidentified Bodies Will Be Interred in Arlington Na tional Cemetery. San Francisco, Sgpt. 20.- The Unit ed States naval Station ?hip supply arrived today from jHiolulu with the bodies of twen ty-ofljKfrom the sub- ; marino F-4. Foar*pf them were! identified sod aent to relatives. The seventeen . unidentified were sent) to Vue Arlington national cemetery. ! AGENT OF VILLA SAYS CAR RANZA LOSING STRENGTH IN SOUTH [VILLA WOULD ACCEPT OBREGON Said to Be Willing for Carranza'a Commander to Be Named Provisional Present. Washington. Sept". 20.- Enrique j ; Gonzales Garra, " provisional presi dent of Mexico' during tho YUla-fea pata occupation arrived here as an | emissary bf General Villa. Ho will attempt to show that Carranza while ; making bis campaign against Villa In 'the north, has withdrawn large forcea from south cpd central Mexico, and once held. ReportH are current In of ficial quarters that Villa had Indi cated that he would accept General Obregon, Carranza's commnnder-ln chief for a provisional president. It is reported that the Villa /epre< sentntiyes had told' General Obregon that recognition would probably 'bol accorded him by tho United States j If he formed a coalition with tho [other groups. The Carranza agent here declared that they bad no doubt I of Obregon*s loyalty and placed no credenco In the report. Enrique C. Ll?rente, tho Villa agent pronounced | the idea absurd. Carrnitxa*s Anny In Torre?n. Fl Paso. Sept. 20.-Carranza] troops have occupied Torre?n, accord ing to unofficial reports. Villa re tired yesterday, it is said, because] I of lack of provisions. Mexicans Seek Conference. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 20.-A non military faction; composed largely of j wealthy Mexicans, including sympa thhizers and representatives of all fae- j lions ia being formed. They will aak ! representation before the Pan-Ameri can conferees. Tbeir plans seek the, I moral and material support of the Pan-American, governments to estab lish themselves In government con* j trol. Wife Mayer Captured. Macon, Ga., Sept. 20.-Bunn O. Lucas, charged v/Ith shooting and kill ing hts wife Saturday night, was cap tured early this morning near the city. The coroner's Jury yesterday charged Lucas wits? the killing, rec- i ommended that he be held In first degree murder. He refuses to talk-. PASSENGER FROM BU GREEK STEAMER WITH 408 PA THURSDAY FROM NEV AND CREW TRANSFE AND PRO Halifax, Sept. 20.-Marine depart ment officials await for further word I in regard to the loss of the Greek j steamer Athlanl, burned and aban doned in mid-ocean last night. The At Mn ni salted from Now York for Piraeus last Thursday, with a ' few passengers and a large merchandise cargo. News of the abandonment was wiro-1 leased last night hy. C?ptala McLean ' of the Anchor Une freighter Tusca- j r.la, and he was standing by pre-1 pored to convoy ber to this port. Soon afterward another message from j the T?scenla relayed by the Cape j Race wireless station, uaid> the Ath ena! bod been abandoned. Nothing waa said regarding the fate of tho passengers ml ere v.-. Marine ofll Iclals are hopeful tbat they were] ! transferred safely to the Tuscan ia. L?lJpiES NEITHER WILL MONEY BE TIED UP IN NEW YORK HANKS MUNITIONS OWLY FOURTH EXPORTS |lf Provision Can Be Sf ede for Other Commodoties Monitions Exporto Cen Be Arri ?ged. New York, Sept. 20.-Wmr muni tions will not block the Anglo French loan nor ls the six hundred or eight hundred millions to be ob tained to be locked in the New ork treasure cheat, according to per* oona In td ose touch with the negotia tions today. I As munition exporta constitute less j than twenty-five per cent of the ship ments bankers hold ltwould be ab- : aurd to bait tho whole problem of .stabilizing exchange, which la con sidered a big phase of the loan. The bankers declare that if provision ls made for tho shipment of other com I modulus exchange would be stabiliz ed and munitions paid for by a diff?r ent method if ad vi sable. It is reported that tentativo pro posals provvJe ror installment sub scriptions to Hie loan. One sugges tion ls that tho sum each' bank pledges would bo payable .in four* equal histatlmonts subject to call, another that the loans should remain lu tlie bank until ready for use and each ot tho big syndicate under-writ ing banks bo called ot. for a propor tionable amount. Illinois Congressman Addresses Fort Sheridan Military Training Camp. Chicago, Sept. 20.-Congressman Martin B. Maddon of Gttcs?*> ad dressed the four hundred who report ed st the Fort Sheridan military training camp for a month's courso today. He urged preachment of a new American gospel ot prepared ness. MEXDENHAI.L LOSE? IX ATTACK OH JUBOS Clearwater, Florida) Sept. 20.-Cir - I cult Judge Keavies today decided that I J. J. Mendenhall, charged with mur ! der of MTS. Bessie* Elliott and -her daughter, must go to trial Thursday. He decided against MsndenhaH'e at torneys who attacked the legality of the judges' appointment to tbs bench, snd claimed he had no Juris diction in tho case. _-HM ISJMOyfMO Adatlssleas at Fair. San Francisco, Sept. 20.-Tho at tendance at the Pan-American Paci fic exposition has reached the thir teen million mark. The avarage daily attendance sines it opened ts Cl .'411. Brltls* Ship, Herde?, Sank. London. Sept. 80.-lt ava announe I ed tonight that tho British ahtp Hor den, tonnage about fifteen hundred has boon sunk. The crew was land lod._t S SAVED RNiNG SHIP SSENGERS ??MD CREW SAILED V YORK-PASSENGERS HRED TO TUSCANIA CEEDING. The Tuseania was bound from New York for Glasgow^ It is thought possible, (hough that she will bring the shipwrecked men to ibis port. Ose Ute Beat Lest. Halifax. Rcpt. 2e.-On? lifo was bast when tho Greek At hon fa waa destroyed by fire, according to a mes sage to the marino department. The steamer, Tuseania resonad 4?? pas sengers and the crew. The atjeiaer "Roumanian Pria oe" Si. A, massage from the Tuseania today ia tho first official word from the liner sluce lt was wirelessed last night that cha Athonla was stirs, and the Tuseania rescued the passeugora. The Athe na! sallied from ?Mew York last Thurs day for G reece with 61 first, 47 sec ond and 21$ steerage passengers.