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VOLUME IL f ANDERSON, S. C. SATURDAY MORNING, T^PTEMBER 26, 1915. NUMB?rV22a BALKAN ARE ALI FOR H( GREECE'S MOBILIZATION WILL BRING ALL STATES UNDERARMS PLANS MATTER OF SPECULATION Should Roumania Join Russia Teutons May Abandon Move ment Against Serbians. .ndon, Sept. 24.-Greece's order ed mobilisation, caused by Bulgaria's military preparations, brings the last Balknu state under arms for Ru mania have been ready for some time for an emergency, willie Bulgaria and Turkey seem to have composed differences, the plans of all the Balkan states la still a metter for specula tion. The successes- of tito Russians in Galicia and Velhynia where tho AUB? trian? were 0riven across the Styr river, it ls believed, will ease tho sit uation on tho Rumanian flank and should Rumania join Russia it might prevent the Austro-Germana from sending an army of half a million against Serbiar The russian successes have caus ed von Mackensen, who is fighting north of tho Prlpet marshes, to with draw somewhat. In the center the Russians are falling back but east of Vaina the Germans admit a tem porary check. Von Hindenburg; in the north i -advances slowly. ? ----- In the west where artillery fighting continues, Berlin claims the British attack south of tito Labasacs ' ' canal broken down. Tho French say a German ammuni tion .depot was destroyed by artillery north of Arras. ? Cannonading is Re ported heavy in Artois, Champagne and Lorraine. German Submarines are active off the Irish coast, sinking five Bri tirili er? since; Tuesday, .including tho Houston liner Hestone,-'Liverpool for Buenos Aires, sunk yesterday. The crew was saved. London, Sept. 24.-Military activi ties on the eastern front aro again assuming the familiar phase of the Blow German advance. The German' plan of dividing the Russian anotes, nortihi and south of the Prlpet han been a strategic Buccess in a way, but the immediate effect Was to throw the increased burden on the Austri ans, who eoe tn unablo to check tho Russian drive. Unofficial . Petrograd dispatches Btate thal the latest Rusa'an victory northwest of Dubno is more Imper-' . taut Utan tho Petrograd official com munication Indicates. It involves the recapture of the fortress of Lutsk, . northwest of Dubno. In relinquish/ Jns this fortress Ute Austrians arc said to have retired across the styr. From lpg a e&tho Batic to. the Prl pet, the Russian* are holding the Uno stubbornly In an attempt to bring-the long retirement to an end. The fight ing is particularly ?ever southeast of Vilua, and east of Dvinsk. The envelopment of the Vllna army lov ing failed it Is assumed that the Ger mans will develop sn offensive at Dvinsk with a vfew of an ultimate blow at Riga. It ls generally believed tbst 1 ho- Germansaredetermtnat th e that tho Gormans are determined to capture Riga before the winter. Optimism O'er Bulgar!? : Rome, Sept. 24 A--The Ciornale d'ltalia anya: It -flh* Bulgarian mo bilization does not mean tb//, imme diate Invasion of Macedonia jr an at taik upon Serbia' in the reur, in case ?of an Austro-Germca drive th-ough tits Balkans Me move may have an optimtstl. explanation, ts it an at tempt to blackmail tho allies to press Serbia to moko further territorial con CO?M,1O?I3, aa the Bulgarian ideal is to obtain Macedonia and Thrace without going to war? Tbc Greek niebtlhra U?? will probablv be followed by papilar slop* in Fjumania. 7(KMKKJ Bulgarian Troops. Sofia, Sent- 24.--Although a par t?s! mobilisation of the Bulgarian army has boen announced here ss imminent, lt is now general and Vwnprisos all the reserves since ISAC .thu? inoVjvdin? Vie men approaching 4hc ?ftlnth year. The total Bulgarian forces 'including the MneedonUuts ls likely to reocc eavm hundred ttoou eand. Thees ?O? iududcd so far are untrained moa and a small class -ex empt nader taxation. Mttt, - Si.---Tho Overseas STATES L READY UTILITIES RUSSIANS TAKE CIT Y OF LUTSK ! Petrograd Correspondent Says Russians Recaptured City and Four Thousand Prisoners. London, Sept. 21.-Thc battle nor pi of Lutsk was a great success for tho Russians, who took four thou sand prisoners and recaptured thc 1 I town of Lutsk, says the Fluters Pct- J rograd correspondent. Receiver Files Cross Bul Against Central Trust Co. and Ten In dividuals for Recovery of $1, 250,000. Chicago, Sept. 24.-The ocho of the crash of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, of which William Lorimer was president, came today with the filing ot a cross bill in cir cuit court seeking the recovery of a million and a quarter dollars allege cd hy, the- Tecetver of. the IA Salle Trust to have been manipulated in an improper manner . The action is against'.the Central Trust company ot Illinois and ten individu.'!*. 1|io amount in cash it said waa put up by the Central Trust Co., for a bank ers' check of the La Salle National bank secured by notes of ten -. or ganizers of the La Salle Trust. Af ter the La 8alle Trust received the state auditor's certificate on the strength ot cash the bill alleges Hie I fund was returned to the Central ? Trust in exchange for the check. Dumba's Messenger Back To Explain. ? ??^ass~~^5?^f^8?? Jame* F., i. Ard Thia photograph shows Archibold stepping from dam, the Hutch liner wi him hack on orders df C hORlati^'Van Dyck from h! toward Vienna with messt Constantine T. Dumba, tba anahaasador. Archibald message to Premier H;:rb* . tai? proposal wo? made ' American ammunition plan* U. S. SOLDIER AT PROGRESO RAIDERS WERE SURPRISED EY CAVALRY WHILE LOOT ING POSTOFFICE ESCAPED ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE Ri? real Wes Protected. By Fire I ve rn M? ::?can Side-Said to Have Boen Cnrranzistaa. r.r?v.v.nvi?c, Sept. 24.-Mexican bandits mounted and sonio wearing Uniforms attacked Progreso, Texas, and killed Private Henry W. Stubbel fioM, troop. B. Two! fUi Ca val ry, wounded Captain A. V. Anderson, same troop, and escaped under cover of the tire of several hundred men entrenched on the Mexican side of thu Rio Grande. '1 wo Mexicans aro known killed, but reports that several Americans were wounded aro incorrect. About eighty Mexicans were dis covered by thc American detachment looting tho posioffice at Progreso. ? Stubblefield fell at tho first ex I change of shots. Reinforcements under Captain Anderson caused ?f?e Mexicans to retreat to tho river, where they took to boats. An early report to the war depart ment from General Funs ton said tue officers described the raiders aa Car ranzlsta soldiers. ? Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 24.-Tho Mexicans attacked a detachment of United States soldiers at Progresse forty milos west here .and killed Pri vate Stubblefield of troop B. Twelfth United States cavalry according to advices reaching here. Tlie Mexicans approached from the direction of the Rio Grande a milo from Progresse. An American de tachment was camped In front of the house. The Mox leans opened fire and I Stubblefield fell. Telephone wires j were cut early today and only meager I details are available. It ls reported i that two American soldiers were I wounded. Tho soldiers returned the firo and moved toward the house, fir ing every time a Mexican showed himself. The Mexicans retreated to ward the Rio Grande. P. L. Atherton is President-Each State to Have Three Execu tive Committeemen. \ . '\ Nashville. Sept. 24.-The Jackson Highway association chose po rm an vil t officers and the claims tor the vtHaas routes were placed before thc cop vent lon. Peter Lee Atherton ot Louisville, waa choaen president and tfjft vice president and executive com mittee for Mississippi follow: J-?J?. McBeath of Meridian, vice president; 1 T. J. Locke, Jr., of Columbus; W B. Potts Ot Kosciusko; P. B. Denten of , Pascagoula. The d iff eren ces between the Mis sissippi and Alabama over land routes will be settled when an agree - , meut is reached to increase the num ber of extortive committeemen for Leach state from two to three. Thia is done to give the northwest coun ties 'of Alabama representation. The effort to include Florida In tho asso iv?fBkm waa defeated. < soverr.or O'Nei l of Alabama, advocated ' the old Jackson military route. NC CLEMENCY I FOR BLANCO ?Obregon Refuaes to Intercede for j j Hun and Court Marshall j I Will Be Held. Si ^aso, Sept. *4.~Sfforts to ob tain cteMcncy from General O^regOn for Gener?! Lucio Blanco, who waa arrested rece/itly with General ?uljk> \ lio Gutierres at Seitlllo on an unstat ed chango, have failed. Bianco, who wa? believed by Obregon to fie acting wi til ike Cu tier rex faction In advo cating a peace pian, la to be court martialed. i i1 1 1 --. I y omar Kassian Minister mad. I Pelrcgra4, Sent. 24.--Hie dtath tv*. Pastor Who Failed and Church Plymouth Church. Dr. Newell iDwIght Hillls, pastor i of Plymouth Congregational church I in Brooklyn, fcne of tho famous ! .churches of :_??e United States, ot which Henry word Beecher a ?a pas tor, told Wo Congregation the other day that hf* mUm?? ry corry for haring ventured mto business outside his regular duties as pastor. Dr. Hillls hae boen brought Into notoriety by lila statement several days ago, wbon he Br. Newell ?wig't Hillls was sued on two notes, that he had paid off tho Indebtedness ot his neph ew, who had failed. The nephew has retorted by bringing a suit for j tr>o.ooo damages. On Sunday, Sept. 19, Dr. Hillls made a long statement to life people in which he did oufr men tion the suit, but explained vaguely that he had reverses in business, and had decided ho would hereafter con fine himself to church work?. LARGES LOAN JUST COMPLETED ?! IMPERIAL TREASURY LM ERATIONINWOl Berlin, Sont. 24.-Dr. Karl Bolf ferich, secretary of the Imperial treasury, declared tho German wa-." loan pi three billions' raised on Sep ?gmber twenty-first waa tho largest financial operation in the world's history, exceeding England's last war lean. England, hitherto, he ?sid, had raised four hill ion elxty-two million Hve hundred . thousand and Germany six billion two him-dCred and fifty mil COAST 0?T?ES WOULD Q?S?RQYEO Freeman Says Confia?ratton Con ditions Exist at Every Atlan tic and Pacific Coast City. Con Francisco,' Sept. 24.-Ameri can seacoast cities would invite de struction by bombs dropped from air] craft ' should this country 'euflei* a hostile attack, according to John il. Freeman, past p^Ment of the Amer '.can Society jf Mechanical Eng! aecrn, in as address before the inter national Engineering COC?T?-CSS t iero: Conflagration condUions exist, he ?aid, in - every Atlantic and Pacifie coadt etty. . 1 ?CLASH KU8H C?V?EflT DEATH Of FRESHMAN Princetown, Sept. 24.-Heart j failure, superinduced by participa- j tion in the annual class rusii nt JPrtncetan. today canned tho" deatfi j of Stockton Well?, a freshman from j Siadtsou, New Jersey. Tow classes f Ocided tonight te discontinue the rushes for this year. ?JERXAXJUWINABTOES AHE ACTIVE I If SRBIHERRANEAN Deri in. Sept. 24.-Spanish new*-1 papers, says the Overseas agency, re? I pott that German ?nbmartnos in thc i Moditeyranean ?un k several ; JPrencS j English steamers and one Rus sian ship. m WORLD CLAREO BY SECRETARY OF iRGEST FINANCIAL OP RLD'S HISTORY. lion in long torin loans, whereas King land's expenditures to the present are leis than Germany's He said mat Germany is financial ly ahlo to continnuo (he war inde finitely. In speaking ot the Anglo French loan in the United States ha said America could not class Ger many as a poor relation. The British passed a credit last week bringing their war total to billion three hundred and ten mil lion. -Lj..^j^ij."">t,..?,. ..i..'.."<..,:r.^*iaaA~>^x-Jje? Agent of U. S. Trc&sury Seised* Pearls and Booka From Ex hibit of Private Firm. San Francisco, Sent. 24.-Japan eso, officials at the Pan-America-Paci fic exposition have protested to the Japanese embassy at Washington de manding an apology and the return of fifteen pearls mid books of a pri vate firms exhibit seised by an agent of W*. H. Tldwell. special ngent of che treasury department. Tldwell says tho pearls wcro sent here from' the San Diego exposition where they were under bond. WEBICANS RECEIVED BT % GERMAN CROWN PftINfESH Berlin, Sept. 24.--American sur geons and nurses on their way to Sorb?a to attend German Wounded prisoners in Fm asian detention camps, were received last night by'th? Ger man Crown Princess. CAPTUN~ANil CREW OF CHANCELLOR AT QUEENSTOWN Qneeftitowti, Sept. 24.-Thirty-two members of the crew and the captain of the Brittan steamer Chancellor. wMcli waa ??ink yesterday, were landed here by the rescue sioamr r today. Others ni fi ie crew' w<8a r> ? ported taken to Kinsale by a trawl LOAN TO OF HALF I PARTICIPATION IN LOAN HOSTILE! I Subscription By Pro-German ] Banks Would Be Considered Support of Enemies. Berlin, Sept. 24.-The Oversees) [agenc,, says a committee representing] a combination of tho largest, Imlus ? trial associ?t lons hare issued a state ment saying participation by Now i York banka witfii German connections j in the Anglo-French loan would bo! considered in Germany as Intention al support to Germany's enemies. ! ZAPATA RAIDS BROW Food Situation in Capital and Elsewhere Suffer? Through De predador? of Pillagers-Villa Holds Railroad. Washington, Sept. 24.- Suececsful ! raids by Zapata troops ori the Vera ! ! Crus and Me/.leo City railway ?iove j aggravated the famine conditions in1 [the capital, the state department ad f vice* say. Tho city "water mninB are j partly disabled and the water abort I age ia becoming serious. The fuel oil supply to run publie utilities ia virtu-1 ! ally exhausted1. Tho Zapatistas wreck- j ed a fuel oil train. The consular agent reports from j Nogales, Mexico, dated yesterday said I the Carra?as forces under Gen. Calles have withdrawn entirely from that portion of the stats and Villa troops under Maytorena are holding the Can nan ea railway. The Villa agency hero made a pub- j I lie statement, issued at Juarez after a I ? conference between Villa and bis mil itary chiefs, regarding possible recog nition of Carranza. Mo said they didi not bel lev o President Wilson can be . persuaded to take the stop, because j that would aignify the recognition of a military dictatorship or despotism without courts or other public Insti tutions willoh de facto governments are required to have under American precedente to Justify recognition. Hoi saya Carranza has never proclaimed a government, assuming all the powers ? to himself. Villa demands and is ! fighting for a constitutionality. The! government agency ?t pesies reported the evacuation and sacking of Torro on by Villa troops and says that Villa ! garrisons still occupy Torre?n and Durago. I ALIENS ARE NOT EXEMPTED UNDER INCOME ' TAX LAW Washln?rton, Sept. 24.-Aliens tem porarily resident In the United States will not bo allowed exemptions grant ed undc: the income tax Jaw to citi zens. Kosidcnt aliena must pay 1 peri cent or the net income, tba treasury I department says. This Js aimed at! I actors, singers and others here for a few months. YOUNG NEGRO ROY HANGED FOR USUAL CRIME IN GEORGIA Jackson, Ga., Sept. 24.-Joe Per sons, a negro Variously estimated from 12 to 15 years old. was banged i here today ahd his neck broken. He I wo i ?'??ed 75 pourtda. He was convict ed August 22 of assaulting an eight ?year Old white girl near here June 14. He claimed to be oUlg 12 years old, but testimony led to the belief that he was 14. Prises UOh* J* Amsterdam. Sept. "S*. . -Prince j Frederic of Thorn and Taxis, son of j Prince IA. 'doral was killed Monday in the Dniester region In itussla, ac cording to a Vienna dispatch to the! Bertin Lokal Anzieger. Sold Useless Mills. New York. Snpt, 24.-Tostlmony that tt?e Corn Product* Raining Co.. ?old twenty-two useless milla ater it'had absorbed them was given lo day lu ?a hearing or tho government's ault? to dissolve the corpOcWloo, ?'Ire Pre vent len Day. Columbia. see?. S-L- Governor Manning today leefce da proclamation i designating October 8 *a "fire pre vention day." BANKERS INTIMATE SUM MAY NOT EVEN BE QUITE THAT MUCH FIVE YEAR NOTES AT FIVE PERCENT Negotiation? Said to Hava Pro greased to Extent That Ap proval of Allies is Asked. Kew York, Sent. 24.-It seemed de finitely reestablished tonight that the proposed Anglo-French loan would not exceed hal billion and lt waa in timated for the first time that it might not be that much. A report was current fiat negotiations had progressed u> far that the commis sion sought Paris' and London's ap proval of the tenatlve program. Members of Pro-German banks who conferred with tibe commission today are believed to have signified their intention to subscribe. Tho assertions of bankers tonight re taken to mean that five year Inotes bearing five 'per cent Interest will be issued for naif billion. Now York. Sept. 34.--Five hun dred million doliere is reported as the new basis of negotiations in the An glo-French loan. The commission it is said ls still Inclined to Insist tor a greater amount bu the bankers were .reported to have Informed 'hem that this sum would not be exceeded. Pou ria appeared to he out of tbs nego tiations ss a participant. It neces sary she too may establish credit here and It seemed likely that indepen dent arrangements have best? made. The final decision on this point ls de ferred until something ls heard from Pierre L. Bark, the Russian finance minister. On behalf of both parties to the oegotlationo it is said today that mattera are progressing smooth ly, and satisfactory agreements are being approached. An announcement ls expected soon. A Protest. - New Tort?, Sept. 84.-The Ameri can Truth Society ?eent n protest against toe proposod Anglo-French loan to President Wilson, the New York state treasurer, the state banking department, tbe mayor, comptroller and chamberlain of New York. The protest Is expressed in resolu tions adopted last night at the first of a serlos of nu is meetings held for the avowed purpose of blocking > luau. Alphonse Q. Koelbe, presi dent of the Gorman-American Al liance of N6w Ycrk was one of the speakers. Ute resolutions ohsr?cter lie tho proposed loan are "unsound, hasardons imprudent, and subversivo to tbe Interests of depositors and cor ruptive, of Ute purpose of bur federal ?king laws.'' UAKE?S T IN ITALY fas More Pronounced In District Around Avaxxano-Caused Panic at Messina. Messina. Sept. 2.4.-There was a tg earthquake Isst night whSo* rased a panic. Many remained out doors al! night. There **s no dam Rome, Sept. 24.-Tho earthquake ere tonight was snore pronounced lian in other Inri fen districts. So far reported thors waa no great dam at Avecxauo. Tits people rushed from the huts in which they had baste IMvin'i alnfce Gie January disaster. The damage was small. In Aouilla the shock wss dSatlnct. ?BEECK TO AftSOTtfB CHARGE OT RA IL KOA BS I/md on. Sept. 24.-Exchange Tele graph duwetchea from Athens says a convention of the chamber of de puties bas been called for next Wednesday to declare martial law and put state railroads at 4?s disposal bf the government. Storm warida* Issued. Washington, Sept. 24.-^A. warning has been issued by tho weather bu reau, for a oarlbean atom raging southeast ot Kingston. Jamaica and probably moving west by north west.