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COfTON PRICES GO UP
ALMOST S20NTHEBALE
Market Shows Increase of Several
Points Over
Saturday.
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OTHER STOCKS SOAR ALSO.
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Bullish Sentiment Takes Cotton Market
by Storms ami I'riees llearli
New High Iicvel for Season.
New Orleans, Sept. 27.?Bullish
sentiment took the cotton market
by storm on the opening today and
January, the strongest month on the
future list, advanced almost $2 a
bale. Other months rose 3 2 to 33
points.
Trading opened with great excitement
and the tone was officially called
strong on the first call. The victory
by the allleB, continued strength
of interior spot markets and the report
by a Southern newspaper that
the crop was half picked, were the
main reasons for the buying. Today's
bulge made new high price levels for
tho neason.
Stocks Sour.
New York, Sept. 27.- -War shares
and the stocks of other companies
participating in contracts with tho
allies soared to new heights in today's
uprush of prices. The movement
was the broadest of any witnessed
since the outbreak of the war
and carried the general list with it.
Latest developments in the western
theatre of war continued one of the
strong factors of the rise. Baldwin
Locomotive was the most prominent
feature, advancing in the first hour
to 106 V4. a gain of 11 points over
Saturday ?nd a new record.
The demand for this stock wu.s attended
by rumors that the company
is to be absorbed by one of the larger
industrial corporations whose war
contracts have tested its capacity beyond
limit.
Other specialties making high records
included Crucible Steel, up 7%
to 103, Republic Iron & Steel 5% to
52%, General Motors 10 Vi to 355
and Lackawanna Steel 1 to 80
Dstillers' securities and United
States Industrial Alcohol, whose products
are said to enter largely into
the manufacture of explosives, also
rose appreciably, with minor advances
in former speculative favorites.
United States Steel rose 1 % to
79%. its highest price since 1912.
Railroads gave promise at the outlet
of assuming a place of imporance
but failed to keep pace with the
demand for industrials and equipments,
although showing a strong
undertone.
Trading in the lirst hour reached
450,000 shares, the largest volume
of business recorded since the reopening
of the exchange last December.
DUMB A. RECALLED BY
HIS GOVERNMENT
Austria Complies Willi the Iteqiicst
of the toiled States
tiovernnient.
Washington, Sept. 27. Austria
lias informally notified Ambassador
Peniield that the government will recall
Dr. Dumha, the Austrian ambassador
to the United States, as requested
by President Wilson.
This information was given to Ambassador
Pentield when he informally
advised Austrian officials, on in
structlons front Washington, tliat the
United States sought the "recall" of
Dr. Dnniha and would not be satistied
with his departure "on leave of
absence."
Mr. Pen field was assured that the
wishes of the United States would
be compiled with and that a formal
note on the suhlect would h*? handnd
to him noon. Until the formal expression
in in tlie hands of state department
officials they can not act
upon the ambassador'* request for
aafo conduct.
Officials here refused to comment
on tho situation, making it clear
that Bitch information as they had
received wan of an informal nature.
>VEEKIiY.
WOKIjrS (JKKATKST IcWKIt. I
liiuly KKlaiittiui (Jives UN7 Kggs
830 Days.
Philadelphia, Sept. 20.?A new
world's record for crk laying com
i>oiiuuii9 ?a? vHutuusaea loaay, i
when Lady Eglantine, a White Leg- |
horn, laid her 287th egg in 330 days
at the Delaware College Agricultural
Experiment Station, Newark, Del
The best previous record was 280
eggs in 365 days, made last year by
a Plymouth Koek hen. <
The new champion is an American
hen, bred from an English strain
Five hens of this strain have laid,
1,138 eggs in 4 7 weeks. The average,
lien lays about 70 eggs a. year.
WASHINGTON INSISTS
ON RECALL OF DUMBA
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United States Not Satisfied With
Mere Departure on "Ijeave of
Absence.
lVaahlnotnf a.? 4 or- ' - '
...uu.uBvua, ?/uuuassa- I
dor Penfleld at Vienna lias been txrstructed
to make clear to the Austrian
government informally that
the United States must insist on the recall
of Dr. Dumba, the American
ambassador here, and that his departure
"on leave of absence" would
not be satsfactory.
From messages exchanged between
1 Ambassador Penfleld and the state
department it is apparent that the'
j Austrian government misunderstood
! the desires of the United States.
It was intimated at first to Am-:
bassador Penfleld that the Austrian
government might recall I)r Dumba
I on leave of absence und might desire'
safe conduct for him.
Dr. Dumba himself telegraphed for1
safe conduct a few days later, in-,
forming the state department that
he had been granted a leave of absence.
No action was taken on his
request, but it was forwarded to Ambassador
Penfleld.
Instructions sent to Mr. Penfleld
were not dsclosed but he has been
advised to make it clear that Dr.
Dumba's usefulness as the American;
ambassador to the United States lias
ceased and if merely given "leave of j
absence" he would nevertheless still |
| remain accredited.
The right of a government to dei
mand the recall of an ambassador
' because of his personal actions is'
! unquestioned.
14-C'KNT COTTON.
' Nothing Short of Tlmt Figure Ls F.\|KH*ted
hy lloke Smith.
I Washington, Sept. 25.?Nothing
j short of 14 cents cotton is expected
by Senator Hoke Smith, following,
j cablegrams received by him from'
j Berlin that German firms which re-(
j contly offered to buy a million bales!
j of American cotton had deposited)
! securities witli the American consu-j
late in Berlin to cover the purchase
price and guaranteeing that the eott
ton will not lie put to military or
naval purposes. As it costs two
cents to deliver cotton in Berlin
this makes the price offered equivalI
out to 14 cents in the United States. |
The view entertained by Senator
Smith is that German cotton hovers
iii anticipation of tiiis government
winning in her protest against absolute
embargo against cotton as contraband
are willing to buy in this
country, believing that cotton can be
delivered in the spring when embargo
obstacles have been removed.
Croat Britain is now buying heavily
in this country. For some time there
have been evidences that Oermany
was buying cotton in this country
and many in high official circles
' maintain that her activities have
! been the element that has gradually
increased and steadily maintained
, the high price of cotton.
1 C'lemson Itefeats Furiiiuti, WO to O
I Greenville Special to The State, j
' Sept. 26 ?In a one-sided game of
football Celmson defeated Kurman
here this afternoon by the score of
99 tot). Furman did not at any time
during the game have the ball in
Clem son's territory. Neither did the
local team ever made the ten yards
n*1 r..it - .1...?? /?i
.... uvmiB. \.ii-iiiHc?n never tost
the hall on downs during the game,
although the Tigers punted several
times. The contest was void of
special .features and of Interest. The
Kiirman team plaved a ragged and
d'sinterostlng game from the start
to finish. On Clemson's part there'
! was no particularly brilliant playing.
LANCASTER, S. C. Tl
riCTV adc i/nirn
II 11 HIM IMLLLU,
200 ARE INJURED
Uasoline Tank Car Explodes
in Heart of Ardmore,
Oklahoma.
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MANY FIRES ARE STARTED.;
Windows in l ily Shuttered?Main
Street lluxiness Houses DamikKed?Deeds
of Heroism.
Ardmore. Okla., Sept. 27.?A
spark from a workman's hammer
ignited a tank car of gasoline here
lato today and from the ruins of two
city blocks razed by the resulting
explosion and the fires which followed,
31 bodies had been recovered late
tonight. The property loss is eati
imwu ttt f UUV,UVV.
Fifty persons are believed to have
been crushed or burned to death
while pinned under the debris of
stores, wholesale houses and the Ardmore
railroad station. Search
among the ruins was proceeding
methodically tonight, the workers
centering their efforts on the mass
of lumber and bricks which had been
a department store and where it was
feared the bodies of many girls and
women shoppers and employes would
bo found.
A score of (ires caused by the
flaming liquid which was thrown for
blocks when the car which contained
250 barrels of gasoline exploded were
gotten under control after two hours'
work by the small local fire department,
assisted by other persons not
assisting the injured. The city was
piacea under martial law immediately.
At 8 o'clock the tires were under
contrc\and the city was under martial
law. Private homes were immediately
thrown open to the injured
and scores of men were, working tonight
in tho smoldering ruins along
Main street In search for additional
victims.
Not a building on Main street escaped
damage, either as a result of
the force of the explosion or of the
tires following.
All school buildings. business
houses and residences within 12
blocks of the business district, bear
evidence of the explosion and practically
every window in the city was
shattered by its force
Two workmen were busy repairing
tho tank at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Suddenly one of them struck
it with a hammer. A spark from
me mow ignited fumes escaping
through a small leak. There was a
terrific explosion followed by many
smaller ones. The workmen were
blown to pieces. The shock shattered
the Ardmore railroa dstation
used by the Santa "e, 'Frisco and
Rock Island railroads and the Rock
Island freight station and scores of
other buildings quickly took tiro
from the Hying liquid.
The flames spread rapidly until
nil of Main street appeared a roaming
furnace. Thirty freight cars in
the Santa Fe railroad yards were
destroyed. Tlio pall of smoke hanging
over the whole city prevented
rescuers from doing effective work.
The roof of the Whittington Hotel
was hlown off by the form- ?>r the
first explosion, hut ?:I guests were
believed to have saved their lives.
At the store of Maddin Co. scores
of girls were working and it was
feared tonight some of them lost
their lives.
Deeds of heroism were many. A
woman waitinir <>? " * ?
?v ?..?* aiirnuii Kllltion
with h baby in her arms and a
four-year-old child at her side,
dashed three blocks with her double
burden, hc.r own clothing blazing at
( lie ran. I'assers-by smothered the
tlames with their bare hands. The
mother was taken to the hospital
dangorbusly burned. The children
were not seriously injured.
For five hours after the explosion
Ardmore was cut off completely from
the outside world. Telephone and
telegraph communication was severed
by the wrecking of poles in the
iiynutvKil umirin.
( old for (ircnt Itritnin Hank
' London, Sept. 27.?The Rank of
tingland today houarfct 70,000 pound*
in hnr Kold.
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JESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,
BOTH SIDES DENY BLAME
CfiD CDOMTirn nniiTiiio
lunrnumoniiniinb
Situation Proves a Puz/Jintf
Proposition to Washington.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY NOW
i
l-'uiiston and Nafurcttc File l>iscluitiii'rs
of Itespoiisibility tor
liorder flash.
' Washington, Sept. 25.?Maj. den.
i Fuuston, commanding United States
! troops on the border, and den. N'aJ
farratte, tlie Carranza commander,
both disclaim for their men responsibility
for the fighting yesterday
near Progreso, Texas, in which one
American trooper was killed and an
officer wounded, while the casualties
of the Mexican raiders are not
known.
General Funston reported to thei
war department today that his men
had repelled the raiding party which
fled across the border under the protection
of soldiers "in uniform" en-;
trenched on the other side. The Carranza
agency gave out a telegram:
from General Nafaratte asserting
that there were no Carranza troops
in the vicinity.
A full report on recent fighting
1 along the border was made to the
i state department today hv the war
! department. It states that in no case
. have American soldiers begun the flrj
ing but it is admitted that civilians
l and deputy sheriffs in Texas have
provoked some attacks.
Officials here are frankly puzzled
over the border situation. General
Carranza has directed General Jacinto
Trevino to make a thorough investigation
and a clearer understanding
is expected. Until authentic information
is obtained as to the cause
j of the raids the policy of the Ameri
! can government will he unchanged.
Explaining tho visit of Gen. Felipe
j Angeles to Washington the Villa
) agency issued this statement tonight:
"Gen. Fellpo Angeles wishes to
: *tate that ho has arrived in Wash|
ington as a member of the delegation
! appointed hy the military chiefs of
the provisional government to repj
resent them in tho peace conferences
planned in accordance with the invitation
of the Pan-American confer|
once August 2.
"Published reports that General
I Angeles has deserted from the eon1
vention army aro false. These rej
ports appear to have been inspired
in Carranzista sources in El Pnso.
"Gen. Raoul Madoro, another
I member of the delegation, will proceed
to Washington as soon as he is
liberated by the American military
authorities who detained hint on the
border while he was en route to discharge
his commission."
griKT <>\ THE in>m>Eit.
Troops IP-gin Search for Missing Man
From Twelfth Cavalry.
Brownsville, Texas. Sept. 2.1.
With conditions quiet at several
points along the Texas-Mexican border
I'nitod States troops today began
a systematic search for Richard .1
Johnson, a private of Troop It!
'P.. ir.i
\M-iuii cavalry, reported missing
after the II|?lit with Mexican raiders
at Progreso yestorday. i'p to a late
hour tonight no trace of the man had
been found.
Johnson and two other troopers
were stationed on the bank of the
Itio Crande where a number of the
raiders crossed into M< xieo. His two
companions reported after the fight,
hut neither could'say what became
of Johnson.
Johnson's home was in Mount
Morris. N. V.
To Supervise War.
London, Sept. 27.- -Premier Asquith,
it is announced, has appoint
en a special committee of the cabinet
to be charged with general oversight
of the war.
The committee which is composed
of the premier. Lord Kitchener,
David Lloyd-George, Arthur J. Halt'our.
S'r Rd ward Orey, Lord Lansdowne,
Andrew itonar Law and Win1
aton Spencer Churchill, will act as
a sort of executive committee, absorbing
the functions of the cabinet's
; Dardanelles committee.
1915.
I><> NOT NKKI> MONKV.
< "horokee Farmers FtUI to \ pply
for 1/oaiiN
(Jaffney Special to The State, Sept.
2U.?Although both the First National
Hank and the Merchants and
Planters' National Hark of Gaffitey
have advertised that they are prepared
to loan money to the farmers and
take cotton as collateral, neither of
them have up to this time made any
loans of this class. As long as cotton
sells at 1'? or 11 cents per pound
it is not probably, so the banK omeials
say, that the farmers will borrow
money on their cotton, preferring
to let it go at that price than!
holding it for the market to go
higher. Cotton continues to bo offer j
ed freely on this market, the price
yesterday being more than 11 cents, i
ANOTHER CAVE IN I
OVER NEW SUBWAY
One Woman 1>?mu1 an<l Three Men!
injured in New York City
Accident.
New York, Sept. 115.?One death t
and the injury of three other persons i
resulted from the caving in of the;
street over the new subway in llroad-j
way near 38th street toniKhl. An \
unidentified woman, who was caught j
in the falling debris, died later in a j
hospital.
The others injured were men.)
Police and firemen continued their |
search for several workmen reported I
missing. I
The accident occurred a few blocks |
from the heart of the theatre district j
shortly before 8 o'clock and Hroad-i
way was crowded with people. The)
? ?funt'iiiiiK or supports in the subway,
due to weight of traffic, is believed
to have caused the superstructure
to collapse.
A crowded street far was approaching
the spot just prior to the
cave-in. The motorman saw the car
tracks ahead sag and applied thej
brakes in time to prevent the car
from being carried down. Many of
tho passengers became nysterical.
Tonight's accident occurred less
than a mile from that of Wednesday,
when the superstructure of the new
subway at 7th avenue and 25th
street collapsed, causing seven
deaths.
Davidson looses to Washington and
1 AH*.
Lexington, Va., Sept. 25.?Ouo of
the scrappiest games ever witnessed
on Wilson field was played this afternoon
between Davidson and Washington
and Lee, the North Carolina
boys losing by a score of 14 to 0.
Davidson was strong on defense but
was unable to dent the Washington
and Lee lines. The touchdowns for
\ir., ..i. i - ' *
uoimip.KiM it 11 ii !.,? ?* were maue by i
Young, halfback, and Sorrells, full-*
back. The only down for Davidson
was made in the last quarter by llill.
Itulgarin Stands .Inst as licforc.
Sofia, via Dondon, Sept .HG. It is i
senil-olllc'.ally stated that Hulgaria
h is merely declared an armed neutrality,
as di<l Holland and Switzer-j
land, at. the beginning of the war, I
end will continue conversation with!
the two belligerent groups.
American t'lircrs in llaitien flush. .
Washington, Sept. liT. Details of
lighting between natives and .Aniori-i
can for? < s near t'npt flaition yest??-!
day in wliic hone marine was killed,
ten were wounded and more than fin,
Ilaitiens were killed reached tin ;
liavv denartinent tnitm- in
from Hear Admiral Capterton. The;
marine. patrols had boon sent out to j
clear tlio lino of supply from < ape
Haition to tlio interior.
VII.I.A rolU'Ks HKTIiKVI'.
<anan/.ist av Kilter Toi-i-?*oii After)
hiis Iii'iive the Town.
I^aredo, Texas, Sept. 2.r? C.irranza
advio.es tonight reported the
withdrawal of the Villa narri?nn I
from Torreon and the occupation of I
the city by f'arrnnza troops. The
Villa forces were reported retreating
to the north, after destroying the
railroad to prevent pursuit. No i
other details were given.
Fifty Villa Soldiers Kilted.
Laredo, Texas, Sept. 27. Fifty
Villa soldiers Were k lied in a battle
Saturday at PalmillaB, between t'arranza
troon.i and Villa soldiers under
General Torreas, according to 'nformation
received here today. The
hg?>t lasted three hours. It fs said.
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W, WEATHER
If FORECAST
M Cloudy and coot
er Tuesday and
Wednesday.
$1.50 A YEAR.
LOOKS BRIGHTER FOR I
hair rimiom mnw
i inn UILLIUM LUttIT I
Anglo-French Agents and Eastern
Hankers Seem to Have
Agreed on Details.
COMMISSION TO ( Hit ADO.
Tin- Approval of Weslcrn Capitalists
Will Assure Success of the
Big Deal.
New York, Sept. 120.?The AngloPrench
financial commission and
Pastern bankers have reached a virtual
agreement on details of the proposed
half-billion dollar credit loan
to Great Britain and Franco. Four
members of the commission will
leave here tomorrow for Chicago to
confer with Western bankers over
the tentative terms.
Details of the loan on which the
commission and Kastern bankers are
in virtual accord are:
The amount?approximately $500,OflO.OOO.
The securities?joint AngloFrench
notes.
NOTES? BELOW PAR.
The interest rate, 5 per cent, to
yield the investor about C M? per cent
by the notes being offered at slightly
below par.
A conversion privilege at maturity
of the notes?the holder to receive
cash or joint Anglo-French fifteen to
twenty-year bonds hearing 4 Vj per
cent interest.
It became known tonight that the
entire tentative program had been
submitted to London and Paris and
that the attitude of the home governments
so far as disclosed is one oC
approval. It is assumed that the
Parliaments of both Great Britain
and France would have to authorize
the issuance of the loan
WOULD MEET WESTERNERS.
The commission's forthcoming trip
to Chicago was announced in a formal
statement, which ?ni>t
now desirous "of meeting some of
the leading men of affairs from other
great centres." If the Western bankers
are in accordance with the tentative
agreement on which the Eastenf
financiers and the commission have
reached an understanding, the program
will stand, barring unforeseen
developments, and its final adoption
is as good as assured. This assertion
was made tonight by an American
financier who has been of the
liner ? ir< le throughout the period of
negotiations.
FOl'K MEMBERS TO CO.
Four members of tlx* commission
will make the trip to Chicago. Lor.1
Reading, who is Lord Chief .Justice
of England and chairman of the commission
end ltasil 11. I'.lackott, a
Hritish livasuiy export anil secretary
(if tltf commission, will lie two of the
unilx r. The other two probably
ill be Sir Henry ltatiington Smith,
former head of the Hank of Turkey,
and 'Ornest Mallet, regent of tha
Hank of France
\ mnnhei of the firm of J. P.
lore at ?l?- (' > nil be in Chicago at
! e same time, it was said.
: 3HOPE DTE WHEN
YAQUIS BURN CAR
Kiuhft I'msschkcvs Throw ii Into
!lny-l<n<lcn I'rciglit far anil
Torrli \pp1iril.
San Diego. Cai.. Sept. 2f>.?Eighty
passengers of a Southern Pacific
Mexican train wero thrown into a car
containing hay anil the car set on
mi- i?v a imno or vaqui Indians, Friduy.
near Torres. Sonora, according
to radio advices received hero today
from Hermosillo, via Guaymas.
Only twenty passengers have been
aeeounted for, the others having
been burned to death.
The Indians, according to the report.
numbered about sixty and were
deserters from one of the Mexican
factional armies. They first derailed
the train, which was running from
<\* nipo Verde to Torres, then placed
the passengers, most of them women
and children, in the hay ear and applied
the torch
So far tts is known no Americana
were on the tram Torres is seventy
m'les north of Gunymos.
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