The intelligencer. (Anderson, S.C.) 1915-1917, August 20, 1915, Image 1
VOLUME IL ANDERSON, S. C FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1915. NUMBER 189.
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LATEST RI
ADD TO I
OF GUL
LIST OF DEAD GROWS AS
MORE REMOTE POINTS
ARE HEARD FROM
BAND PLAYED TO
CHEER PEOPLE
Galveston People Crowded Into
Terminal Station?Free Bread
Line at Galveston Hotel.
KNOWN 1?E > 201;
?.* '28ft-PERSONS MISSINO
-
Houston, Aug. 10.?Verl- x+
fled reporta tonight place the
number of known dead outside 4?
Galveston proper at a hundrec
and one, with two hundred'
and sixty 'our missing. Gal- +
veston it is estimated thero arc +
not more than twenty dead.
The proper/y damage is +
vaguely estimated in mintone, +
but there are no definite fig- *
uree.
Houston, Aug. 19.?Remote points
on Galveston Bay, which penetrates
the mainland for fifty miles from the
coast lino, began to report today. At
Anahuac, on thi ebay five lives were
l?fft - wl" T. MIli?r7 engineer aboard
the United States dredgp boat num
bers twelv*, confirmed its loss. All
the crew ware saved.
Mil?or, after having three rlbe brok
en, floated down Trinity River oh a'
log, then rode on a horse twenty six
miles until he reached rail communi
cation with Houston and arrived here
this afternoon. He found three dead
at Wailllsvllle and five reported miss
ing at Moss point.
Edwin Carter, of Houston, was In
the water near LaPorte from Monday
night until early this morning. He
was delirious when found.
Refugees from Galveston today said
when th esterni broke Monday thou
sands crowded into the federal build
log, big offlco buildings and hotels.
Tuesday morning a free bread line
was formed in the hotel. Galvez.
A band played Tuesday night to
keep the. people's spirits up.' Thou
sands crowded in the terminal rail
road station. Negroes on the lower
floors sang "Old time religion." Re
fugees watched the fires which red
dened the spray and rain over the
city.
No person was allowed to bring
liquor into this building, one man
being turned away because he re
fused to relinquish it.
New Orleans^ Aug. 19.?There are
no reports yot from Marsh Island,
about one hundred and fifty miles
southwest of here, where over a hun
dred are either marooned or lost
Rescue,boats arc on"the way there
The 'American steamer Moarjeno
of the United Fruit Company lino
over-due from Belize. British Hun
duros, has not reported. Sha has on
board 25 passengers and a largo
erew. Efforts to communicate with,
wireless have failed. It is feared she
may .Have, gono ashore during the
hurricane.
Beaumont, Aug. 10.?-NO additional
fUalf'Jea art reported so far in thhx
district today.. So far as known here
nearly a scoro are dead and num
ber ars meeting. Elve aro dead at
Port Arthur,* eight or ten at'Patten,
one at i?nrt Bolivar and three bodies
>)M?..seen io ?ho Sabbie Noches
can?i.
There were many narrow escapes.
F ?r hundred residents of Johnson's
Bayou took to the iree tops and high
ground. Some homos wer? .washed
a war, but all thr'-*lvcs ware * saved.
A man drifte ! inte port Bolivar Wed
nesday, on a halo of cotton, a tariy
dead. He had been " in the water
since Monday. .
Thousands of cattle were drowned
on the flooded ranches.
ITALIAN VOLCANO
13 ACTIVE AGAIN
Mes*', a. Italy, Aut. 19.?The erup
tion ?s a large inantity o* lava from
Stromboli te reported by the chief sig
hs! ottic .r at etttupfcoU island, it lo
fermine a iaHa of -*re between ?tac
cratorR and the ses. .The croissions,
are accompanied by loud detonations
an A e?oke clouds.
EPORTS
lORRORS
F STORM
RAISING FUNDS
10 AID CAPTURE
FRANIfSSlAYERS
PROMINENT CHRISTIANS AND
JEWS PRESENT AT MEET
ING IN N. Y.
FRANK'S BODY
ARRIVES IN N. Y.
Score of Detectives and Police
men Were on Duty to Guard
Against Demonstrations.
New York, Aug.. 19.?Prominent
Christians and Jews met here today to
discuss plans for cooperating with the
Georgia authorities In, apprehending
the men who lynched Leo M. Frank.
They will raise funds.
Dr. Cyme Adler, chairman of the
American-JewlBh committee, declined
to aid',' saying h? believed it-a mat
ter tor the^GeoM^aatfcoriilen.., .
_
New. York, Aug. ?9.~Leo Frank's
body arrived here this morning. Over
a score of detectives and police are
on guard against demonstrations.
They wore few persons at the sta
tion. Mrs. Frank was met by her
sister, Mrs. Otto Stern, and others of |
Frank's relatives.. .The body was tak
en to the Stern house in Brook'.^n,
where the parents awaited.
New York Aug. 19.?Frank's body
was taken to an undertaking estab
lishment. ' The funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19.?Governor
Harris conferred with the etate pri
son commissioner before taking fur
ther action to investigate the- abduc
tion and lynching of (Frank. He had
expected to give out a statement be
fore noon, but decided to withhold it
until after the conference. He stated
that probably it might have to be
revised and might not^be ready until
late today. It Is-understood the. gov
ernor "will review th? case from the
time he took office on June 26. He
said he would not include supposed
happenings from the time the mob
took Frank Until the body was frond
near Marietta.
The governor docs .not credit any
of the many reports of what is alleged
to hr.vo taken place..
O. B. Kee'er a newspaperman re
siding at Marietta in an article pub
lished' says that Frank's wedding
ring was delivered to him last night
by an unknown man. with,a note that
It be sent to Frank's wife.
ALLEGE MEN RECEIVED
AID FROM unis
Money Furnished British Recruit
ers and German Warships
Say indictments.
San Francisco. Aug. 19.?The al-j
legation that the Iraeperlal German
consulate and that A. Carnegie Boss,
British consul here, have furbished a
quarter of a million dollars directly
orni indirectly to tho men under V
dictaient for violation of the United
States' neutrality, were made In tho
Indictments made pnb?c here today.-'
il was said that British money aid
ed recruiters and the Ccrman money
aided supplies to German warships. 1
MARINES ASMIJfE 'CONTROL-'
O* ANOTHER ' E TOWN
Washington, Atig. 19.?One com
pany of American. marines landed at j
St. ,-irIo, Haiti. hav? taken c?ntro!
nf the town. The attempt to oppose J
the landing f-vlled, Arti ml ral Caperton
reported.
VENNrTElil ???A?>.
Kmme. Au?. 19.?Cardinal Serafino
Yehnutttll. dean of the sacred college/
la dead aged SI.
Germans Build
TbQ Germans have recently built
this remarkable triplano, which they
declare Is capable of carrying twenty
mon just as easily as the British bi
plane or the French monoplane will
carry two. Thle enormous machine
ha^hqt, so far as is known,, been
used in tiie war; but it is understood
Not Willing to Concede Fall of
Inner Forts?-Allies Land More
Troops on Gallipoli?Fighting
in West.
_
m
ndon, Aug. 1J.?Russian reports
do n t concede the total loss of Hor
no. They claim the Germans cap
tured only tho fortifications on the
loft bank of the Niemen. F.outb of tho
Rug. Tho Germans aro now" before
Brost-Litovsk, J/ussla's greatest rulll
tnry station. Novogcorgc?lek lias
been invested ten days and is in im
minent danger. Reports from both
sides indicate that a desperate battle |
may bo under way.?n a line parallel
to' tho IJ.'ilystok and Brest-Lltovsk
railroad.
On the British section in the west*
era front there has been no serious
infantry lighting since the advance at
Hooge. The French, however, have
been u?oro active. Tills announcccs
violent artillery ngagemonts In the
Artois region In Champagne, beyond
tho Meus and In the Vof-ges. At
tacks with grenndos by the Gem?an
crown prince's army wore repulsed. !
BIG RUSSIAN PORT 0|V
TIME?ITALY CON
OF FAST CRU
London, Aug. 10.?Cerman war- j
ships are again mennc'.ntc Riga? the
big Russian Baltic por*-, according to
an official statement at Petrograd,
while Italy lina concentrated five nriny
corpse at Apulia under orders to leave
for an unnamed destination.
ttlmult?ncox.'dy !taly lina concen
trated a strong squadron of fast cruis
er* at Ta--do In readiness to steam'
immediately. It Is expected they will
be sent ngainftt Turkey unless Italy's
demand for the rel?* bo of - Its' laus
held there Is granted.
It Is believe* bere that German ad
: 1/in Po'.and have nikde if Im
possible for ths rtur.hi&ns to make a
stand at tirfst-Lltovsk line wher they
w?r# expccrl'u to.
Gteat Triplane
that men are now being trained to ]
use it. ?
Hie ?ernia?:; hope with euch an
aeroplano to pot a force in the air
which will rout tho smaller scouting
machines of the allies. Twenty arm
ed men would have tho advantage over
a single avjajajr and tho opevator.;fjg|
the machine gun with him.
GREECE STILL
Premier Venizeloa Asks Addition
al Time in Formulating New
I Cabinet?Visits Ministers of
Entente.
London, Aug. 19.?KlUg Constan
tino yesterday received the ' Drjtlsh
minister to Greece, according to an"
Athens dispatch, by the Exchange Tol
egraph company and also expressed a
desire to see the Russian minister.
M. Venizeloa vis?tod the entente min
isters and had a long conversation
with each.
Hestla says that Venizeloa has
asked for permission to delay tho for
mation Of a new cabinet in order to
Investigate whether Gotinaires policy
bad not rendered tho International sit
uation such that bis policy hencefor
ward would bo impossible of applica
tion.
TOM Mc.>'AMARA VTOJi
GOL* tlIAMl'IONSlUl
Chicago, Aug. 19.?Tom McN'amara
of Boston won the western onen golf
championship with a score of 304 for
seventy two holes.
\ BALTIC MAY BE B<
CENTRATI ING TROOI
IBERS WHICH MAY A
Tbc French claim local advantages
in the west bat there have been no
trig development*.
.The sante scamato apply to the Ans
tro-Italian front.
< Berlin. Ang.y 19.??Further advance
of. the Cormas'-army attempting to
capture Brest-Utevek- is announced.
Th? statement says the positions near
RokUno wore penetrated. Two forts
north of Novogeorgiovsk. which havo
been invest od seversi days were cap
tured . One thousand prisoners, and
125 cannon weve captured.
retrograd. Aus. 19.?-Russian suc
cesses nor!h o* the river bank of tho'
Bug, whero Ge. maha had pushed back
SINKING OF
SHOCK TO
HAD HOPED GERMANY WOULI
TENSE RELATIONS EXli
AND GERMANS?INC
FURTHER COIV
Washington, Aug. 18.?News of the t<
with Americans aboard, came as a eMot-V
since the last note to Germany there w
already tense situation. While it is no
vere lost, the torpededng without warnii
in itself been pronounced by the United
which If repeated would be regarded as
RESERVE BAIS
HAVE FUNDS TO
COULD ALSO FINANCE OVER)
HA?.F TOBACCO AND
WHEAT
COMPTROLLER ON
USE OF FUNDS'
Says Banks Can Do No Better]
Than Employ Surplus in
Crop Loans.
Washington, Aug. 19.?Comptroller
of Currency Williams announced to
day that the present unemployed loan
ing capacity of national banks and
resorvc bank3 was eufflciont to fi
nance, at Its market value, the en
tire cotton crop and half, if not all,
of the tobacco and wheat crops, and
to justify expansion of a credit of two
or three billion dollars. Just be
fore this announcement the British
embassy authorized the statement that
the allies had agreed upon the prin
ciple that coton was contraband.
In his statement, Comptroller Wil
liams said: "It is far better fior
banks to enploy surplus funds in
making loans on staple commodities
where they can relievo congestion or
promote legitimate commercial tran*
Ructions, rather than permit, these
funds to be used for th- inflation of
stock market where speculation in
rocurttie sha? already reached a point
which invites cautlpn."
REWARD FOR MI RUKRKR.
Atlanta. Aug. 19,?Fowards aggro
! gating $450'have been offered for the!
! apprehension of Nick Johnson, the 1
Rutledge bailiff, who shot and killed
S Stewart. Floyd I 'oster In a poker ]
1 game.
3MBARDED AT ANY1
*S AND SQUARDON
[TACK TURKS
southwest to Voldava. and in the re
gion of Wnidimlr Wnlyntk hare al
layed thefoare for'Kovel on- the
main line bei'.?e?n ilrcst Lltovsk and
Lutsk, although the government tn
etltutldnn have already* beea with
drawn.
London, Aug. 19?The British land
ed additional troops-at Suvln bay on
the Gallipoli peninsula, it Is an*
nouneed officially.
- London. Aug. 19.?The war office
admits that after ?4 hours of heavy
fighting m which no roat progress
tra* made, the British wfrn nee was
halted. The losses on both sides
wer? very large.
ENGLISH
?ERICANS i
)OED BY (
ARABW
OFFICIALS
y NOT FURTHER AGGRAVATE
>TING BETWEEN U. S.
:iDENT MAY C?USE
IPLICATIONS.
jrpedolng the British liner Arabic,
c to American officials', who hoped that
ould bo no further aggravation of the
t known officially that any Americans
ig of a vessel carrying Americana has
States as a violation of its rights,
"deliberately unfriendly."
offer mm
Fl
of leo f
OFFERS FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS EACH FOR FIRST
THREE CONVICTED
WILL DO BEST
TO CONVICT ALL
D?clares He Thought Danger of]
Attack on Frank Had
Passed.
Atlanta, Aug. 11?.?Governor Har
ris, alter a consultation with members
or the - state prison commission; to
night issued iu the form of an in-,]
tervlew, a statement declaring he
would do all in hie power to bring to
Justice the men who lynched Leo M.
Frank. He also signed a proclama
tion offering a reward of five hundred
dollar.* each for th? first three per
sons convicted of lynching Frank.
He stated that the danger of an at
tack on Frank was thought to be
small after- the first month,, and that
the state prison farm was not built
to withstand an attack from he out
side. Ho declared, tho. reason for
calling out the militia a month ago
was because of a secret message" of
warning, and be believed that calling
out the militia then postponed tho
lynching a month.
ATLANTA STRIKERS
RETURNED TO WORK
Settlement of Details Are in
Hands of Union Officials
and Employers.
Atienta, Aug. 19.?-The strike of
steel construction men end other
workers on the new Atlanta skscrap*
er on the Connelly corner has been
sat la rae toril y settled without labor I
complications which it was at first I
feared might intervene.
Nearly 200 skilled workers have I
returned to work, and aro now perch
ed high in tho air, tossing :vd-hot riv
en across the ompty spaces, swing
ing sledges while porchedXllko birds
on narrow ledges and working like
beavers at the-power hammers.
They hayo left the de'?pUs. of the
settlement to the contractors and to
their officials of the Structural Iron
and Bridge Workers union.
CONFESSES TO TEN Mt'UDERS.
Moultrio. ?a.. Aug. 19.- Will Mc
Grlff, a negro hanged here today for
murder four years ago of W. B.
Washington, confessed "rom the -icaf
fold that he had slain t?n other, nit/-)
within the last four years.
TO INVADE FINLAND I
London, Anr;. 19.?According to a'
despatch from Stockholm, to the
Morning Post the Germans are pro
paring to land troops on the coast of
Finland.
WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC
SUNK WITHOUT
WARNING
O AMERICANS
KNOWN MISSING
Day and Fact That BoaU
Were Ready Saved Many
Lives.
London. Aug. 1ft.?The White Star
llnor Arabic was torpedoed and sunk
y a German submarine tats morning ,
southeast of Faslnet.
According to the White Star Line no
warning was given' and the veesel
sank hi ten minutes. She was enroute
?rom Liverpool to Now York was,
therefore, without contraband.
Of four hundred , abd twenty three
persons aboard?a hundred and eighty
Diio passongers and tw ohundred and.
forty two in the crew?thirty two are
missing, all but six of these being
members of the crew.
Whether any of th? victims were
Americans lias not yet beep determin
ed, there being .twenty six aboard.
it is reported that the passengers
had Just seen a British steamer, pre
sumably the Dunsley,' torpedoed and
the Arabic* passengers were adjusting
life preservers when the German tor
pedo hit the ship. The passengrs took
to the,rafts and tjfeboats and-were
picked 'up by other ships and taken to
Queen etown. There was perfect or
der, in lauchlng the boats, according
to many eurvivors. This end the
fact that liners now traverse the war
sono with fife boats swung out and
that the day was clear probably saved
many lives.
s Captain Will Finch and most of the
officers were saved. The Arabics* ton
nage was five thousand. She was the
largest eiilp, except the Lusitanla, that
thR Germans have torpedoed.
The torpedo boat was .seen to rise
Just before it fired the torpedo which
hit the starboard side aoubt a hundred
feet from the stern.
New York, Aug. 19?Careful check
ing of the various lists of survivors
here shows no Americans were lost
on Arabic unless some of,them board*
ed at the last minute and were listed
as of other nationalities.
London, Aug. 19.?The Press asso
ciation announced definitely that the
Arabic was sunk. She is reported, to
have gone down In eleven minutes off
Fastnct a small island four miles
southwest of Cape'Clear, Ireland. It
is reported that the steamer took off
the passengers and erek. The White
Star line received. a message saying
it is hoped thst many or.most- of the
passengers and crew.were saved.
The company announced the vessel
had 170 second and'third class pas
sengers, but none of the first cabin
and 210 in the crew. She sailed
from Liverpoor at 3 o'clock yesterday.
The Arabic's tonnage was 15.801,
10,062 not. She was ell hundred feet
long, 05 beam and 47 deep.
She was'built in Heir-t In 1908.
Two sticks of dynamita were found
on the steamer before she sailed
from NOW York on July 28 and sbe
was ckuiftd by a submarine. She has
been used to carry war supplies.
MACHINISTS Util
in STRIKE
Fifteen Thousand M?n to Strife*,
if Necessary, for Eight Hour
Work Day.
Washington, Aug. 19.?The execu
tive board of the 'International Asse*
elation of Machinists today gave au
'ii or i /at ion to fifteen thousand ma
chinists In Nv-t York and New vSflg
land states to strike if necessary to
obtain the eight hour day nod -better
working conditions. The names-of
the plants Involved were withheld.
NORWAY PB31A1IM, RET?JR?f
?F MAIL BY <! *&A 8
Christiania, Norway, Aug. 19.?The
halting yesterday of the Norwegian
mall steamer Hsakon Vil and th
uro of thtv mailr. by a. Gorman subma
rine has been followed by a protect
to Berlin with a demand for the re
turn of the malls to Worvr?y. The
Haakon VTI was bound from Bergen,
itt Englaod.