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VOL. 10, NO. 5, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1914. - $1.50 A YEAR.
STRUGGLE FOR COAST
PORTS NEARING CRISIS
Fighting Must Now Be More
in the Open.
LESS INTRENCHMENTS.
Derisive Result* May 1h? Expected.
ilouse-to-Hou.se Advances Are
Xow In Progress.
London, Oct. 19.?The attempted
advance of the German forces along
the coast of Belgium and Northern
Prance, apparently with Jhe aim of
establishing themselves^in British
channel ports so |^?ey may menace
England, has rptched a critical
point.
The extreme western fighting line
now reaching from Armentiers
through Roulers to Nieuport on the
coast about half way between Ostend
and Dunkirk. According to the
French official announcement today,
German heavy artillery, presumably
used in the siege of Antwerp, has
bombarded the front from Nieuport
to Viadsio, which is about 10 miles
from the coast.
The allies also have made progress
eastward from a point south of
Armentieres toward Lille on a line
running roughly to Arras. The report
tells of house-to-house fighting
in which the allies are advancing.
The battle has raged around .Arras
witnout respite for 10 days, and on
the part of the allies troops fwlth a
perservauce and a splriit jj which
never for a moment has b?>n relaxed."
The German official report* covers
these operations more tersely. It
says the attacks northwest of Lille
have been repulsed with heavy dosses
to the allies. $
^ ALLIES HOPEFUL. J
English and French papers Kather
encouragement from reports^ published
from their side. From the
German point of view it Is possible
the Oermans have improved their
position and with the forces that besieged
Antwerp and reinforcements
from Germany are attempting along
the coast another sweeping movement.
In this field of action it appears
inevitable there noon must be some
decisive result. The country's flatness
seems to have made it impossible
for the two armies to entrench
and face each other without im
portant change in position for weeks,
as they have done across Northern
France.
The announcement that the Germans
have taken siege guns to the
neighborhood Belfort may mean
. they plan an attempted advance on
both ends of what has become virtually
a long fortified line.
German official reports say the
exodus from Ostend is being repeated
in the flight of inhabitants from
Dunkirk and Boulogne. Confirmation
of this assertion has not been
received here, but it is wholly possible
the proximity of the Germans
has created a panic at those ports.
Great battles continue in the easttern
theatre between the Russian
and Austrian-German forces. Reports
from both sides are brief and
contradictory. Pdtrograd claims
the Russians have won partial success
in severe fighting before Warsaw
and Przemysl. Vienna declares
the Austro-German armies have
made advances in both regions and
that the Russian casualties at
Prsemysl number 40,000.
Her H. A. Bagby, D. I>? Called to
Chester.
Chester 8peclal to Charleston
- News and Courier, Oct. 19.?Rev.
H. A. Bagby, D. D., of Liberty, Mo.,
haa been called to the pastorate of
the First Baptist church of this city
to succeed Rev. W. E. Thayer, who
will go to Sumter to accept the pastorate
of the First Baptist church of
that city. Dr. Bagby was formerly
at Greenwood and is well known in
South Carolina.
Put the Cashier in the Vault.
Byars, Okla., Oct. 19.?William
Allison, 24 yearn old, today locked
the cashier of the First State Bank
of Byars in the vault and fled on
horseback with $500. A posso In an
automobile captured Allison. The
money was recovered.
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WHAT THE WAR IH COHTINCi.
Claim That Each Nation In Spending
i #200.000,000 Monthly.
I Paris, Oct. 18.?Paul Leroy-Beau
lieu, thq French economist, esti- j
mates that each of the greatest bel-1
liferents is spend'ng an average
equivalent to $200,000,000 monthly. ;
In presenting these figures to the
I Academy of Moral and Political j
j Science, he considered It probable
j that the war would continue for,
'seven months from August 1. Ac-1
' cordingly the five greater powers engaged
were committted to an expen- '
i dlture of $7,000,000,000. Each of
the smaller stages, including Japan,
will have expenses of from $600,000,000
to $806,000,000 to meet.
M. Leroy-Beaiilleu concluded:
"The larger part of the savings of
the world will bo absorbed by the
taking up of national loans and ]
economic progress will be seriously .
checked." j
ANTI - GERMAN RIOT
Jjff CITY OF LONDON
Twenty Shops Wrecked and (Jen- j
eral Pillaging Follows?Gerl
man Placed Attacked.
London, Oct. 18.?Anti-German
looting in London last night seems
have been more general than
fiVst supposed. Twenty shops were j
wrecked. Damage was done in
Dfeptford Borough and in Old Kent
llyad. In the former district several
stores were attacked and one was
flnnl. In Old Kent Road meat markits
were smashed and a confer- ;
|-<Ionery store wrecked. Some of the i
shops were pillaged. Police were .
called out and twenty persons arrested.
,
i Great , excitement prevailed
throughout Sunday in Deptford and
; neighboring boroughs. Crowds in
the streets refused to move at or
Brindllla wan formerly the German
ateamer Washington.
She cleared from New York for
Alexandria, Kgypt, Tuesday and was
captured the same day by a British
] cruiser. letter she was transferred
i to the charge of the Caronla which
i placed a prize crew on board. She
,1b reported to have contraband of
i war on her cargo. The admiralty
I court will consider the case.
; tiers 01 policemen and soldiers.
Twenty bakeries, butcher shops
and saloons were completely frecked.
Rioters threatened to attack
German places In Bromley and other
boroughs If they were permitted to
open.
The rioting was led by one hunidrel
dock laborers, who had I een
' turned out of a lodging house to
1 make room for Belgian refugee?.
, The men gathered In a Germ-in saloon
and smashed the windows and
the bar. The dockers charged the
! raiwin owner with ha Mng sturted a J
report that two British battleships j
had been destroyed. The shop of u
i German butcher, in the winuow of1
| which a picture of Emperor
I liam was displayed, was \ racked. i
The rioting proceeded for a mile |
| before It was stopped by soldiers. 1
The shopkeepers all lived above
their business places and their I
apartments were sacked.
MOKE RIOTING.
English Mob is Again Rampaging j
for the Germans.
, j London, Oct. 111.?Police tonight!
dispersed a mob that again nttempt- '
ed to wreck German shops In the
borough of Deptt'ord. Many shopIfAaaaM
* * ? *
n, it'iiruiK HiiacKs, naa strongly
barricaded their places.
11 A police court judge today declined
to accept bull in the cas^x of
I more than 30 rioters arrested during
Sunday's demonstration. The
public prosecutor advised thts. declaring
the conduct ol those wreck-I
jing and looting the stores and living ,
apjMtments of Oermaus was a disj
grace to Englishmen.
The newspaper campaign agai 1 !
the employment of subjects of hostile
countries continues. Several
additional hotels today announced
that all German and Ausetrlan employes
had bee discharged. A large
number of restaurants have subst!-,
tuted girl waiters for Germans and
Austrians.
British Setae Vessel Flying American
Flag.
Halifax, N. 8., Oct. 18.?The
steamer Brindilla, flying the American
flag, Was brought into port today
as a war prise by the British
auxiliary rriiliAr Pornnio i,i>?
COTTON AMENDMENT
DEFEATED BY SENATE
Passes War Revenue Bill Levying
$100,000,000 Taxes.
THE VOTE STOOD 34 TO 22.
Southern Democrat#; in Coalition
With Republicans Fought for
I iidefln ite Post |M>neinent.
Washington, Oct.. 17.?The administration
war revenue bill, levy-;
tng approximately $100,000,000 ad-'
dltional taxes to meet the emergency |
caused by the war in Europe, was
passed by the senate tonight, 3 4 to
22, after Southern Democrats, in
coalition with Republicans of the
senate, desperately fought to indefinitely
postpone consideration, because
cotton relief legislation had
been decisively defeated.
Democratic leaders, by a supreme
effort in the climax of the cotton
fight, gathered their faltering forces
and, spurring them on with eloquent
appeals for party solidarity, defeated
32 to 25 the coalition in its move
to indefinitely postpone action. Sen-1
ators Clark of Arkansas. Smith of 1
Georgia, Smith of South Carolina,
Vardaman and Whito were the
Democratic senators who fought to
the end. voting with the Republicans
to postpone action. This
would have killed the hill for the
present session of Congress.
PERSISTED TO THE LAST.
Despite urgent pleas of Senators
Williams, Stone, Shively and James,
who demanded united Democratic
support for a Democratic measure
fostered by the administration, these
five Southern senators, under a
storm of oratorical denunciation,
peristed to the last in their determination
that the bill should contain
some cotton relief provision.
The enlivening contest that mark- |
ed the passage of the bill foreshad- I
owed the end of the long drawn out \
session of Congress, which has kept 1
flags flying over the capitol almost
continuously for the past two years
The tax bill will go to the house on 1
Monday and will be sent to conference.
An agreement on the measure
between the two houses probably
will be reached by the middle of next'
week.
The vote on the revenue bill followed
party lines with one exception.
Senator Lane of Oregon, Democrat,
voting against it. Immediately ;
after its passage the senate, on mo-1
tion of Senator Simmons, insisted
upon its amendments and asked a
conference with the house.
Pnn foronu nnmo/1 O
KUUICU WUIU. oriliiuir^
Simmons, Williams, Stone, McCum-!
ber and Clark of Wyoming.
PROVISIONS OF BILL.
The main provisions for war reve- i
niie included in the senate bill are:
Tax on beer, $1.75 a barrel; rectified
whiskey 5 cents a gallon; all'
domestic still wines 8 cents a gallon,
and 55 cents a gallon on all grape
brandies used in fortification there- |
of; champagnes 25 cents a quart;!
carbonated wines 10 cents a quart; |
liquors und cordials 24 cents a gal- ;
Ion; bankers $1 Iper thousand of
capital, surplus ' and undivided ;
profits; pawn brokers $50 a year;
commercial brokers $20; commission
merchants $20; custom house
brokers $10; proprietors of theatres
museums and concert halls, with
seating capacity not more than 300,
$25 a pear; not exceeding 600 capacity
$50; nol exceeding 1.00, $75*
more than 1,000, $100; circuses
$100; other amusement proprietors
or agents, except of chautauquas,
lectur^ lyceums, agricultural
or industrial*, fairs or exhibitions
under religtous or charitable auspices,
$10; bowling alleys and bil
uaru rooms $5 for each alley or
table.
TOBACCO TAXES.
Special annual taxes on tobacco
dealers and manufacturers: Dealers
in leaf tobacco from 16 to $24;
dealers In tobacco $4.80 for each '
store; manufacturers of tobacco, i
with annual sales not exceeding ;
100,000 pounds, $6; not exceeding!
200,000 pounds. $12; 400,000 !
pounds, $24; 1,000,000 pounds,'
$60; 5.000,000 pounds. $300- 1ft. i
000,00ft pound*. $600; 20,000,000 j
pound* $1,200; exceeding 20,000,(Continued
on Page Eight.)
FRENCH REOCCUPY
TOWN OF ARMENTIERS
And Check German Army on
Banks of the River Yser.
ENDING BATTLE OF WEEK.
Allien Achieve Important Successes
in Fight for Dunkirk and
Calais.
London, Oct. 18.?Two important
successes in the battle of Dunkirk
and Calais, for the possession of
which the Germans are striving, are
credited to the iilliea in tho
communication issued in Paris this
afternoon.
The French are said to have reoccupled
Armentiers, an important
railway junction on the Belgian
frontlet northwest of Lille, and to
have repulsed an attempt of the
Germans to cross the River Yser,
which flows through that little
corner of West Flanders, which is all
of Belgium that remains in Belgian
hands. That would mean a check to
the German attempt to reach Dunkirk
by the coast route. The French
also are said to have pushed back
still farther the German army,
which is advancing along the Belgian
frontier to the coast.
ENDKD BATTLK OF WEHK.
The battle, which culminated in
Armentiers, again coming under
French influence, lasted for a week.
The fighting wps hard and continuous.
The town was seized by the Ger
mans last week owing to its importance
as a railway centre. Besides
it is the road to Lille, which the
Germans still hold, despite reports
to the contrary. The battle opened
with cavalry fighting, which gradually
developed into a general battle,
which dictates that the French are
advancing in force toward Lille.
The allies also have advanced
north of Labassee Canal, between
that line and Arrn? and n? norinin
points between Arras and the Oise,
This latter is a rather long front,
hut the claims in the French official
communication are taken here to
mean that the German movement
westward has been checked.
GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS .
The Germans, however, are bringing
up reinforcements, seemingly
determined to resume the offensive
either toward Calais at some other
point of the long front,
Berlin says it is not known where
these new troops are going, and it is
thought here that it probably will
be several days before the Germans
make their presence felt.
In the centre ~,t the Vosges the situation
is stationary.
The Germans have established
civil administration in the greater
part ofBelgirm, and are said to have
demanded war levies from Ostend
being called upon to pay $1,000,000
and Rienkenberghe to supply certain
provisions.
The arrival in London of thousands
of Belgians has stirred up
populations in the poorer districts of
the city against the Germans.
REPOORTS CONFLICT.
Again the Russians and the Austrlans
flatly contradict one another
as to progress of events in the east.
The Austrians claim the operations
are progressing favorably for them
while an official Petrograd report tonight
saps attempts by the Austrians
to cross the River San failed, and
that in fighting south of Prezemysl
they captured fifteen Austrian
officers and 1,000 men.
It would appear from reports of
correspondents at Petrograd that
the Germans made repeated attempts
to cross the Vistula at Josrfow,
but wero driven back, with
heavy casualties.
British and French fleets and the
Montenegrin army are attacking
Cattaro, the fortified seaport of
Austria in Almatla, the first sortie
from which the Montenegrins claim
to have repulsed.
Throughout their sphero of operations,
Servia reports say, the
Servians are sweeping everything
before them. It is not believed here,
however, that very serious fighting
nas been taking place there recently,
as weathfr and road conditions
must have been against it.
In a nautica (family the father is
the mainstay and the mother the
spanker.
OIiI> ENEMIES MEET. |
Veterans of Civil War Will Gather
at "Hull Hun."
Manassas, Va., Oct. 18.?Delega-1
tions from the North and South 1
will meet 011 the Bull Run battle-!
field next Friday to witness the un- (
veiling of a tablet to the memory of
Colonel Fletcher Webster, son of
Daniel Webster. Colonel Webster
ummandei! the Twelfth Mas3uchu- 1
setts regiment in tne second battle j
of Bull Run and fell on the third day
of that struggle in 1862.
The dedicatory address will be j
i delivered by another descendant of j
l Daniel Webster. Lieutenant Samuel '
I Appletor. of St. Paul. Minn > on ' 1
ISdmund Berkley, 92 years old, of | .
1 the Virginia regiment, will make an I 1
j address.
GOVERNORS TALK
OF COTTON PLANS,.
Reduction of Yield Urged?St. j 1
lauds Pool Plan Favored. i 1
I j
Financial Help Suggested. { !
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 17.?A plan ' !
to the farmers of the South to cur- i j
tail the 1916 cotton production at .
least 50 per cent and approval ' i
of the St. Louis pool plan to \
take care of this years surplus cot- .
ton were voiced in resolutions adopt- ]
ed at the meting of governors of i
Southern states here today. The con- |
ference was called by Gov. George; <
W. Mays of Arkansas, but only four.,
executives appeared tn person. Two j
others, however, were represented. ?
Those present were Govevnor Hays |
; of Arkansas, Governor Hill of Louis- |
iana, Governor Brewer of Mississippi ]
and Governor Please of South Caro- |
lina. North Carolina was repre-1 \
sented by C. W. Poe of the state | ,
agricultural department, and Ten-j |
nessee by State Senator J. B. John-1
son of Paris. ' ^
Thp roflnllltlnn oo n /lo?*ed 1 1
- ? ? .vuviuv^uu uo aviu^iru 1 t-<iu . :
"Resolved, That we approve the! 1
efforts of bankers and business men j '
of the United States to form the' <
I 1150,000,000 syndicate to take care 11
of the surplus cotton crop of 1914; 1
that we urge our people to curtail ; <
the cotton crop of 1915 as much as h
1 possible and not less than 50 per \
i cent. 1
"We urge upon the federal gov-11
! ernment and its officers the necessity I
| of furnishing all the financial aid I i
possible in marketing this crop. j I
"We urge that earnest efforts be
made not only to decrease cotton '
I acreage but to develop proper mar-!
I meting facilities for the diversified ! '
crops made necessary by the present
! conditions."
Governor Blease of South Carolina
. offered the resolutions demanding
that the meeting go on record as fa- ' 1
voring legislation by the states pro|
viding 'for restriction of cotton acrejige.
lie declared tie would go be- 1
fore the South Carolina legislature
and demand such a law. insisting
it was the only means of saving the
'Southern cotton growers from starvation
next year. ' <
Two sessions behind closed doors
were held by the state executives.
I The general discussion, it was said,
favored an educational campaign as
the best means of securing the de-1
sired relief in 1915. ?t was propos- ' j
i ed to call upon the federal department
of agriculture to co-operate i
! with the state departments in this '
j effort. I
13,541 ENGLISHMEN
ON CASUALTY LIST
i Killed Belonged to Royal Scots. ,
Royal Irish And East
Ii
Surrey Regiments.
London, Oct. 18.?An official re,
port by Gen. French, commanding ]
the British expeditionary force, gives |
I the total of British killed, wounded ]
; and missing from September 12 to j
October 8 as 561 officers and 12,- <
I 980 men.
The war office tontght Issued an|
other casualty list, received from i
I headquarters under date of Septem- )
ber 16. It gives 51 non-commissioned '
officers and men as having been kill- i
ed, 149 men wounded and 555 men i
missing. i
Those of the killed belonged entirely
to the Royal Scots, the Royal I
Irish and the Fast Surrey regiments. I
The East Surreys, the Kings own i
Reottish borderers, and the Somer- 1
set Light Infantry figure largely in i
the missing list. <
Of oommlssiloned offlrers the list i
gives four killed and five wounded. 1 <
DANIEL A. TOMPKINS
DIES AT MONTREAT
Captain of Industry Known
From Maine to Texas.
CO-FOUNDER OF OBSERVER
Was a Native of Kilueflelil f'ounty,
Tliis State, ami a Man of
lairge Interests.
Charlotte, Oct. 1?Daniel Augustus
Tompkins, who with the late
Joseph P. Caldwell, re-established
The Charlotte Observer in 1892, and
who for 30 years was one of the
leading men In the South and was
known from Maine to Texas, died
?unday at 12:45 o'clock at his summer
home at Montreat. Death w:.3
due to paralysis from which he had
suffered for four years, ho having
suffered a slight stroke on a train
journeying to Greensboro four years
Ago. Since the beginning of his illness
he devoted his time in an effort
to regain his health but without
n.vail. Up to the last few months
Inis mental vigor was undimmed.
He left Charlotte in June for Montreat,
accompanied by trained nurses
nnd relatives. For a month past it
was realized that his strencth was
going fast. Thro*' weeks ago lie
suffered a second stroke which deprived
liiin of speech and for the
past fortnight he was unconscious
for the greater part of the time. Ho
realized several days ago, saying to
those in the room that he knew the
snd was near and that he was ready
to go.
News of Mr. Tompkins* death was
received in Charlotte with sorrow.
Since 1882 he had been one of the
best known men in North Carolina,
was one of the most remarkable men
of the South. He was a man of
strong intellectual, executive, inventive
ability, forceful in thought, derisive
in action and fearless of convictions.
He developed the cotton seed oil
Industry in the South, built 200 cotton
seed oil mills, a number of fertilizer
works, electric light plants,
and improved ginneries and other
Industrial plants. But textile school
buildings and assisted in mo organization
of the textile schools for
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Mississippi.
Mr. Tompkins was a recognized
leader of the industrial and economic
life of the new South. He
was president of the D. A. Tompkins
Company, president of the Atherton
mills, president of the High Shoals
nills and KdgM'uhi Manufacturing
Company. Ho was a member of the
Engineers' Club of New York and
one of the founders of the Charlotte
Sanatorium.
Mr. Tompkins was just f>2 years
old, having been born October 12,
1 852, nine miles north of Edgefield,
S. C. He was the son of the lato
Dr. DeWitt Clinton Tompkins of
Edgefield county. His mother before
marriage was Miss Hannah Virginia
Smyly. Mr. Tompkins was by
birth a representative Southern man,
one of his early ancestors, Stephen
Tompkins, having located in Virginia
as far back as 17 50, and many
of his relatives were men of merit
u n rl fHotii)/?H/\n ? ?- a ??
u.?viu< viif.. 111 men yruiessions.
His father was not only a physician
[>f skill and learning hut a gentleman
of bright, cheerful disposition
find genial temperament. Thus he
attracted to him all who came within
the sphere of his influence.
The body will be brougnt to Charlotte
Tuesday night. Interment will
be made in Elmwood cemetery her.?.
Funeral arrangements had not been
porfooteif last night, but the service
will probably bo held Wednesday.
Settle Army-Navy Question.
West Point, N. Y., Oct. 19.?An
agreement finally has been reached
whereby continuance of the annual
army-navy football game for the
nex five years Is ansured, It was announced
here today.
By tlilR agreement, approved by
both Academies and by the necr??
tarloR of war nnd of the navy, each
uoademy alternately will select a site
for the game, the choice this year
lo go to the navy. The middies will
r-hoose Franklin Field, Philadelphia,
and November 28 as the place aud
iate of this year's contest.