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VOLUME IL * ANDERSON, S. C SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1915. ALLIES PROGR ALL f FRENCH TAKE MORE GER MAN GUNS AND PRISON ERS IN CHAMPAGNE ALLIES HOLD ALL GROUND GAINED Russian* Straighten Line By Cannier Attack Agata Von Htndenberg. London, Oct. 1.-Prof rea a for the allied troops in Glwenchy wood, the capture of additional . Gorman guns and prisoners In Champagne, the stopping of tho German bombardment in Argonne by French counter offen sives and gains in the Teglons of Neu ville and Artois, according to French announcements, mark developments in the situation on the western front tonight. Field Marshall French announced no change on tho British front. Vir tually all ground gained by the al lies is held. ? The French declare the Germans used shells in Champagne which emitted gas causing the eyes to water. Except in front of Dvinsk and in Volhynia where the Germans claim progress, Berlin admits the Fjusstans are on the offensive. The Russians, in counter attaching von Hindenburg launched at Minsk from tho north west, succeeded in nearly straighten ing out their line from north to i south. The growing belief that Bulgaria ?lilas joined the Teutonic powers and 1 thai the Anglo-French and Russian! troops will assist their Balkan friends is engaging diplomats. The -Austro-Germatt " offensive against Serbia ls still undeveloped. Italy haa began an offensive along the i sonso river against the impor tant Austrian position at Tolmino*. Lawton, Oct. 1.-The French are bearing tho brunt ot the fighting on the western front. They are hammer ing at tho second German line in Champagne in tho direction of the Grand Pre- .railway and at the same time are dropping bombs on the line and stations to prevent the Germans from bringing up reinforcements. Absence of news from the British front apparently indicates that these forces are occupied with consolidat ing their positions in the strip of ter ritory recently won. ? The British forces now in France aro cs tinja ted at a round million, Which! ?til he increased by a half million. The daily lengthening obi tuary columns in' London newspapers is beginning to measure the price thc British "paid for tho recent offensive. There ls no notable change on the eastern battle front. Vienna announces that a third Aus trian war loan will bear 5 1-2 per cent interest. Bulgaria has not replied to tho.sug gestion of Greece that she demobil ise. Farther Frenen Attacks. Par?s, Oct. 1.--The French made further progress in a great battle in the Artois region by means of hand grenades through the German, trench es, the war office announces.- In Champagne a German counter-attack near Maisons de Champagne was checked.- Tho Gormans violently bom barded the French trenches near Sou Ptr, north of Alene, hut made no in fantry attack. To Protect Twa Nations. Paris, Oct. 1.-The Temps an nounces that France .sou Great Bri tain have already taken military measures to defend Serbia and Greece against Bulgarian aggression. London, Oct. 1.-Genera1 Alexei rforopatkin has been appointed chief i/.s Russian Grenadier corps, accord ing to a Reut?r dirpatch from Petro grad. It the Kuropatkin report is true lt shows a remarkable reversal in pub lic opinion {n Russia regarding the military leader who waa disgraced be cause of the failure of Russian arms la the Japanese war. VON PAPEN DR IN ARCHIE ALI Washington, Oct. 1.-CL;ura stance? i?*re deeply involving Ger man Military t?apt*?a von Papen in the Archibald case have developed. It his been learned fe/ the state department that von Papen, ID addi tion to sending a letter containing ?3> expression "idiotic Yankees" gave MAKE ESS ON FRONTS CHAMP CLARK MISESRECORD OF DEMOCRATS SPEAKER HAS CONFIDENCE IN VERDICT OF VOTERS AT NEXT ELECTION THINKS WILSON TO BE REELECTED Says People Have Absolute Con fidence in Pilot of Ship of State. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 1.-Speaker Champ Clark, In a speech at the De mocratic state banquet tonight, re viewed the legislative record of the Democratic party and expressed con fidence in tho voters' verdict at the election in nineteen sixteen. He said that in the first two years the Democrats passed more construc tive legislation than the Republicans enacted in two decades and that Ute legislation is so good nearly all pro gressives in congress and many Re publicans supported it. . He praised the tariff law and said the income tex feature would never bo repealed. He praised the reserve bank act and the anti-trust law. In closing he said the Democrats de served well of the Republic. In speaking of President Wilson he declared: "The people seem to have absolute confidence in the pilot of the ship of state and are not likely to- drop him overboard In m id ocean while the storm whips the water in to fury." GOVERNMENT WINS AGAINST MOVIE TRUST U. S. District Court Decides Mo tion Picture Patent Co. ?a Monopoly. Philadelphia, Oct. 1.-The govern ment won ita. suit against the Motion Picture Patents company. TO? United States district court today de cided the combination was a monopoly In restraint of trade. The govern ment charges that the Motion Picture Patents company and other defend ants were engaged in inter-state and foreign commerce in motion pictures, films, cameras, exhibiting machines, and Other articles and apparatus used in motion picture aft, in violation of the anti-trust law. A number of pro ducing companies and individ?ala were named in the charges. The court in fate decision states that all contracts enumerated In the gov ernment's petition, and the combina tion therein described, wore a con spiracy In restraint of trade, and there fore illegal. ATLANTIC FLEET BEGINS ANNUAL^ MASEtJVEBS Washington, Oct. M.-A heavy lino of dreadnoughts and an auxil iary fleet of transport-s'alrs at sun rise today 9 ita eked the Atlantic coast from 7?or?olk to Cape Cod. However, it was nothing to get ex cited about-Just the beginning of the annual narai War game for the Atlantic fleet und?' fate direction cit Admiral Frank F. Fletcher. In the coast attack last spring the U. S. navy wa? badly licked owing to a shortage ot swift battle cruisers. Th*/ enemy landed on the Virginia coast under cover or a heavy fog and captured Washington with little difficulty. AWN DEEPER D-DUMBA CASE 9 . Arch!*.'"" two cipher reports . ad dressed v the German war oulce. The de^rtment ts trying to de cipher the code. Von Papen - is re turning from .the west to confoy with Ambassador B*msiorff. It is Indicated tn c?fici?l circles that BernatorfT will be asked to re call von Papen. First Photograph The Hesperian, an Allan linc BI ried 300 passengers and a crew of en:ployed in tho crew. ?RY COLUMBIA'S MAYOR IN COURT - Vtll Be Charged With Disorderly Conduct-Over Thousand at Mass Meeting Held in Court House Last Night. Columbia, Oct. 1.-More than weive hundred. Columbians gathered n the court bouse tonight to consider barges against the official record of ifayor Lewlo A. Griffith. Hundreds yore unable to' gain' admittance; AR ff ort to howl down Richard J. Per on, who brought the charges, did not :o far because a majority was In avor of giving the matter a hearing. A resolution was adopted by the meeting requesting that the city council take the police department ro munder the jurisdiction of the layer. A resolution was also adoptad re ue st lng the chief of. police to lodge , change of disorderly conduct gainst Mayor Griffith. The. disorder ; alleged to have occurred In the estricted district of the city. The esotutlon also asked that the mayor e Immediately put on trial. No mention of a recall election was lade at the meeting. It ls said that lie 'leaders wish to bring the charges efore a court. Ung Ferdman Believed to Have Changed-Crown Prince Re called aa Commander-m-Chief -Mobilization Continues. Rome. Oct; 1.-Despite a rigorous lUlgarlan censorship, Thea Tribune (alma to have dispatches from * Sofia tating that tho situation has been om plicated by an apparent change of rout by King Ferdinand. Crown ] >rince Boris had been recalled as ammander*In-chief. A " sentiment ro aring Russia ls reported growing In lie rural dUtrlcts. Tho Tribune's i ?patches assert that moMUr.s Hon 1? rocecdlug under a German staff offl-, ar. out will not bo completed for nothor fortnight. Berlin is reported-to hato made a remise of fiOO.OOO Austro-Germ?n troops .to undertake the march irouali" the Balkans to Constan U?? lo. Three hundred thousand Oer ians are concentrated at Tetnesvar, ungary, with 300 cannon, Including 0 siege guns, and CO aeroplane?; hey WlH not be ready tn attack for so weeks. It is believed here If tno liles send an expedition against Bul arla lt will be landed at Kavc.la on io Aaegcaa sea. It ls said that both ie allies and Germanic powers soon ill send ultimatums to' Bulgaria. E A I> QIJ ? ETE BS OF SSRHfAN VHbVni MUXCE B09FBARI>KB NiBh, Oct. l.-^Craguyevata, where rown Prince Alexander and tho Ser* ian error staff have headquarter*, aa bombarded today hy Auatro-C?r tau aeroplanes. The crown prince as not Injured. h of the Hesperian -. teamshlp. was attacked by a German s 300. Twenty-?ix of thone wont to deat I LOCHTE LEADER Gen. Nafturette Reports He is Awaiting Instructions to Attack Bandit?-Eleven Dead Mexi cans Found. Brownsville. Oct. 1.-Luis Dela recn, known as the loader of the Texas Revolt" und seventeen of his bandit followers. Including one said to be an Axoerlcan, have boen discov ered on the Mexican side of the river, according to General Nafarrette. the j Carranza commander, who ls walting, Instructions to attack them. Eleven dead Mexicans wero found on txite American side of the river, forty-five miles from here today. Tho . Carranza agency in Washington an nounced that three former Villa, of- ? fleers, representing many chiefs of, Villa's army, are on their way to , Vera Cruz, incognito, to arrange the surrender of their commands. RIGGS BANK OFFICERS GHARGEOWITH PERJURY Testified in Recent Hearing That Bank Had Not Dealt With Defunct Brokers. Washington, Oct. 1.-Charles C. Glover, president of the Riggs No tional bank, and William J. Flather. vice president; H. ll. .tether, cashier were indicted today on four counts, each charged with perjury in connec tion with tho bank's recent snit against Secretary McAdoo and Comp troller Williams.' The Indictments charge that they made an affidavit that the bank never had engaged in stock market transactions with Ixtwis Johnson and company, a defunct firm of local stock brokera. EMI AND RUSSIA WILL GET TOGETHER [Conference Between McKenna and Bark Restait? in Arrange ment for Joins Action. I London. Oct. 1.-lt is officially an j nouneed that conferences between Chancellor of the Exchequer, Regi nald McKenno, and th? Russian fi nance minister. Li. Bara, have re sulted in an arrangement for a Joint I course o' action between the two gov ! crnmonts. Ros ton Tunnel Near Completion. Boston, Mass., Oct. 1.-The new [East Boston tunnel extension will bo [in full operation tue middle or this ? month, it is h?lteved. Practicality ?all of "the work fbfce been complot ed. The tunnel connecta the eider tubst aud ls expected to graatlly facilit?t traine.- It cost $??00.000 and was begun Nov. 2?, 19*2. Sinking After Sh* ubniarlne, Saturday ovenlng. Sept. A, 1 li. The shij) held three Americans, <w NEW ffiETHOD OF FIGHTING "SUBS" British Using Submarine Tele* phones wad Small Boats Equip ped With Quick Firing Guns Many Captured. Washington, Oot. t --A new means of combatting submarines which has been put in operation by England ties already resulted in the estimated loss ot fifty to Beventy German Bubnierel bles, according to officials reports [ reaching the United States govern ment. I The BriUsh admiralty believes lt has crushed the German underseas campaign. While the greatest sec rccy ls thrown around the method em ployed Viv United States is Informed that a submarine telephone bas been developed by which K 1*? possible to detect the approach of' a submarine by sound, from observation boats ot stations connected with the mainland. Huge nets stretched in se? laneB are also used. Thc ?reutest single factor tn tho success of their campaign, tfie British say, ls a fleet of small sea going motor boats armed wRh quick firers, i which swarm the British -waters. MAHYTO TAKE PART IN LOIN Flood of Applications Received From People Anxious to Par ticipate--Approximately $430, 000,000 Already Offered. New York, Oct. ?,-A flood of ap plications for participation tn tho An glo-French credit loan reached the syndicate wh'ch will monago tue half billion dbHar bond Issue. The subscription books havjs not been opened but the maximum estimate total already offered is as high as four hundred and thirty million. The statement has been ' morie that one man offered thirty million, while oth er? were for three to five million. Members ol the commission t rink that many British ond French Inves tors will ask for some bonds. COMB MAKE HS KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF DUST Berne. Switzerland, Oct. 1.-Be tween thirty and fifty workmen were killed in a fire which destroyed a large comb factory at Muenlinwy? 'owing to a foreign dust explosion yesterday. Four hundred' were work ing when the explosions occurred and the majority were Jure 1. SIX MIDSHIPMEN WILL " BB SHIPPED FOB HAZING Washington, Oct. 1.-Six midship men were dismissed and four sus pended for a year-with ? returning of 16 to Ute next lowest class. Secretary Daniels announced, aa *> Tosnlt ot tho recent hazing Investigation ot the na val academy. Tho navy court reenm mended the dismissal of ten. ' Was Torpedoed r>0 ailles off Queenstown. She car o of whom were saved. They were FIVE MEXICANS STOLE A YACHT Were Waling for Munition Laden Boat Bound for Mexico-B Caught By Revenue Cutter and Placed in Ja? at Key West Key West, Fla., Oct. 1.-The const g dard cutter, Miami, arrived herc to day with the yacht Ventura, which was stolen from the harbor here last night. Aboard tho cutter were eli men, Frank Relner, a dorman, nad five Cubans or Mexicans, said to be members of ti:.* crew ot tho schooner Lucy H. charged with the theft ot the Ventura. The Miami overhauls J the Ventura off Sand Key where P'.IC lay in walt for the Lucy H, bound from Key West for Mexico with a cargo of arms and ammunition. It is alleged the men intended to transfer tba munitions from the Lucy H to the Ventura. The Lucy H., however, went aground outside the harbor here. The six will be given a hearing be fore the United States commissioner tomorrow for the theft of the Ventura on tho high seas and leaving port without clearance papers, No action will bo taken against the Lucy- H., OJ she cleared. REPORTED THAT TUE KERRS AND BULGAES HAVE CLASHED Turin, Italy, Oct. 1.-There have already been several clashes between the Serbians and Bulgarians along the frontier, according to reports (liiere. The Bulgarian patrol at Trltchouke, ls reported to have at tacked tile Serbian sentinels who re treated . G. A. ?.. EXERCISES DELAYED BY RAIN Laying of Cornerstone of Ampi? Itheatre at Arlington Ceme tery Postponed. Washington, Oct. 1.-The laying of the corner stone-in tho new National amphitheatre tn Arlington cemetery, which waa tho feature of today's pro gram of 'he Grand Army encamp ment, wai postponed because of a driving rain. President Wilson, who was. to havo laid the corner stone, held himself ready to go despite the downpour but -the co.-nnjittee post poned tho affair until some day next week. New. Wireless De-tee. New York, Oct. I.-The Invention of a device to prevent' static inter fers?C? with long wstanco wireless has been announced by a Columbia professor. Michael Pu pin. REPORT OF Ml BRITISH II Berlin, Oct. 1.--Tho Overseas agency says the Lok*! Kanselger published a dispatch from Bagdad telling of the mutiny of two British Indian regiments, tho Eighth Mur NUMBER 226. DEATH LIST I LATE REPORTS PLACE NUM BER OF KNOWN DEAD ?T HUNDRED AND FIFTY MANY TOWNS WASHED AWAY At C o mmun?catio n is Established Condition? Become More Appalling. ? * ?v?**44"?4 ? ? ? 149 KNOWN ?EAD * ? -- ? ? New Orleans, Oct. 1.-Re- 4 ? ports from scattered sections ? ? of Ute Htorm-Hwept area In ? ? LonlHlana and along the Mis- * + sfsslppl galt coast tonight 4 ? placed the Bamber of known 4 ? dead at a hundred and forty- 4 ? nine. The reported dead 4 ? number a hundred and ala. or 4 ? a hundred and fire. The pro- 4? ? nerty damage ls estimated ta 4 ? the mJllltas. 4 ? 4 4*4444444*444444444444 Twenty-four at New Orleans. Of the known dead twenty-four are in New Orleans and environs. At Kigolets twenty-one and Lake Cath erine twenty-two. Both of these places are small resorts on the Louis ville & Nashville -railroad In the marshes east of New orleans and were inundated hy a tidal ware which destroyed the railroad eridge at Rigolet? and swept, away Dunbar la Cannery, a town in that section where the death toll ls not known. Shell Beach reported fifteen negroes and one white man dead and twenty two whites drowned at Delecrolz Is land. Both are small settlements south of New Orleans. Reports that twenty-fire are dead .' near Fronter, on Lake Pout Char train, were confirmed by a railroad man arriving at Hammond. Steamer Capslxed ; Eljbt Drowned. The steamer Hasel capsized nr?r Gran?lalo and eight were drowned. The sole survivor, tte engineer, floated fifteen miles on a piece of timber before he ?was picked uup. Miles of Territory Inundated. Fi'teen negroes were drowned at Yolosky, La. A relief ?boat has been sent down the river from here where conditions ore not known. Passing ships report only four houses re main In the town of Empire and two hundred are marooned on them. Five uf the crew and a white woman aboard ?he steamer sunk at Lockport ?fra missing. The country between Poy dras and Burns on the lower river is Inundated and the levees gone. Tba. -life and property loss lea said to ba appaling. . Bay St. Louts reported one dead, nouma, Louisiana, said the city was safe and no lives lost. ? \ ; Biloxl and Mississippi gulf towns are apprehensive for the safety of three or four hundred fishermen and the crews of seventy-five schooner? ?somewhere in sltfe Louisiana marshes shrimping. A relief expedition has gone out. Train Service to Went Resumed. Trains operating north and west of Nsw Orleans and wires from the west are working toto th? city tonight. Louisville ft Nashville officials, say it will he weeks before their train service Into the city is resumed. New Orleans, La., Sept. 30.--Nine teen ar? known to be dead and; prob I ably two hundred ?re injured with a damage estimated at several mil lions. This ls th? toll of the hurricane which swept har? Wednesday. Tan of the known dead are white three negroes perished at Algiers, Louis iana, and six here, and la the suburb?. There ls- probably heavy property losses and possibly many casualties to southern Louisiana aa far west as Morgan City, ?specially near Mooma, Rumors from sources, sooth and southwest. Indicated e heavy Hf? tous. Railroad maa from Morgan; City -(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.) JTINY AMONG miAN TROOPS and Tenth Sikh, tn the fight ing it was said twelves hundred Brit ish were killed and eleven hundr?? natives killed or wounded, Th? British ?roly list does not show any Muroena regiment.