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> WATCH Your Label and Keep / VOL. 10, NO. 103, SEMI M*rmKILLEOJN FRANCI Spartanburg Youth Dies at Bat tie Front in Foreign Land. IN BRITISH ARTILLERY Ijeft United States Soon After Ku rojH*iin War Waa Declared. May llrtng Body Home. Spartanburg Special to The Slate Sopt. 30.?William Montague Nicb oils, second lieutenant in the Britis loyal artillery, son of Judge an Mrs. George W. Nlcholls of this city and brother of S. J. Nlcholls, mem ber-elect of Congress from this dli trict, was killed at the front ii France in the fighting that took plac there between the English and Get man forces last Sunday and Monday according to official announcemen received here this morning from th British war office by members of hi family. The following dispatch wa received this morning by Judge Nlcb oils: "London, England, Sept. 30.? Deeply regret to inform you that Sec ond Lieut W. M. Nlcholls, R. F. A was killed in action between 26-27tl September. Lord Kitchener expresse sympathy." Lieutenant Nlcholls, who left fo England soon after the European wa was declared, having resigned fron the United States Naval Academy a Annapolis a year previous to becorm a member of his father's law firn here, spent several months in Lon don before his service in the Fnglisl army was accepted, but Anally, afte taking the oath of allegiance to Eng land, secured a commission as sec ond lieutenant in the royal artillery and was sent to the front about i year ago On March 21 he was wounded, be ing shot through the thigh. Thi: caused him to spend several month in a hospital, but, recovering fron that wound, he was again sent to thi front, possibly three months ago. News of his death was not a sur prise to members of his family here since the dispatches ot the last fev days announcing the advance of th< forces of the allies in France am Belgium caused them to realize tha Lieutenant Nleholls was in the thicl of the fighting. Efforts will be made to have Lieu tenant Nicholls' body recovered an< returned to this city for burial. Sucl a request has been sent to the Brit ish war office by Nicholls. The state department at Washington ha: been asked to aid. Montague Nicholls will be remem bered In football circles as quarter back on Navy team of 1911. WIRELESS TELEPHONE. Navy Officials Enthusiastic- Over E\ pcrimesU. Washington, Sept. 30.?Navy de partment officials uVre enthusiast!' today over experiments resulting foi the first time in trans-continenta wireless telephone communication By this means the human voice wai successfully transmitted yesterda; from the Arlington wireless plant tc the Mare Island. California, nava station, a distance of 2,r>00 miles. 0 This achievement together wit! the successful operatioon of a devtc for automatically transferring to the radio telephone, conversations orig nating on metallic circuits was ac compllshed after extended tests eon ducted hv direction nf fanlhln Itnl lard, chief of the navy's radio servici in co-operation with the Americai Telephone and Telegraph Companj and the WeBtern Klectric Company In announcing the result Secretary Daniels prophesied further develop ment in long distance commnnioa Hon. _ ! Haitien KcIwIn to IjAJ I)ohii Amis Capt Haitien, Sept. 30.?The Hai tien rebels who have been reststim. Amortcan troops resulting in severa encounters recently, have agreed tc lay down their arms. A conference was held yesterday between the prjn cipal rebel leaders and American itn fleers. The rebels promised to ceas< armed resistance. -WEEKLY. MORC1AN KKTURN8 WILL. Will of Martha Washington Agnh Ein Hands of Virginia. Richmond, Va.t Sept. 29.?J. I? Morgan, of New York, has sent with out cost to Justice James Keith pros ident of the Virginia Court of Ap peals, to be disposed of by him al his own discretion, tho will of Mrs Martha Washington, taken from tin records of Fairfax Courthouse by j , Federal soldier in the war ant * bought by tho late Pierpont Morgar for his library, i- Fairfax Harrison president of th< Southern Railway, was the mediatoi between Mr. Morgan and (Jovernoi 5 Stuart and Justice Keith. This it is ' stated unofficially, will cause to b< Ij dropped the friendly suit brought b> (j Virginia to recover its lost public rerp ord. The will probably will be placed ^ by consent, in a fire proof vault ol Mount Vernon. \r I FIVE ELECTROCUTED AT STATE PRISON r, t Four Negroes Convicted of Murderlng John Q. IjCwIn, Oonfederate Veteran. Columbia Special to Charleston News and Courier Sept. 29.?In expiation of the crime of murder five _ uvhiuco ncic cieciiucuifu at me stale Penitentiary today, one hour and ten minutes being the entire time cqn^ sumed in carrying out the stern man s date of the law. The negroes went to their deaths without having confessed their guilt of the crimes for which thej paid the death penalty, four of t them protesting their innocence to t the last and the other without any re ference to the murder. The electrob ^ cutions today established a new record for South Carolina since the substitution of the electric chair for the gallows. The greatest number heretofore to pay the,death penalty in one day was two. The electrocutions began at 11.10 o'elock and were over at 12.20 it took the largest number of ampers at the State Penitentiary to kill one of the I negroes .Tom Grillin, thirteen being required. Four of the negroes. Meek Origin. 1 Tom Griflln, John Crosby and Nelson Brice, were electricuted for the murder of John Q. Lewis, an aged Confed erate veteran of Chester County, on ' the night of April 24, 1315. Joe Malloy, the other negro electrocuted vma j sentenced to death for the murder of 1'rentia Moore and Guy Rogers, two white boys of Marlboro County, on 1 Thanksgiving Day, 1910, while the youths were out hunting, j Relatives of the murdered boys and of the dead Confederate veteran 1 witnessed the executions. About one hundred and fifty persons, including 8 several negroes, also saw the various execution in relays. " Recall Falls in Town of Beau tort. u Beaufort, Sept. 29.?Mayor C. E. Banner and Councilman \V. F. Marscher won the recall eection vester | day over H. It. Legare and J. B.Ilodd I by a vote of 144 to 75. There were I 158 VVhttO I'fttaro ">'! CC ?1'U uu IICK1K votes. The best of order prevailed at the polls and all over town. The r. result was accepted quitely. Many p of those who carried the recall in the j primary on September 17 by a vote of 94 to 15 could not vote today because they had lost their registra.Itation certificates and there was no ,I opportunity to get duplicates. I The successful candidates are well satisfied with the showing that they got, a majority of the white people 3 voting. Messrs, Legare and Dodd point out that the white vote for recall at the _j last primary was 94 and that without the negro vote today their opnonents would have got considerable , less than 94. 1 lliilgitrla to Knter the War in Two Weeks. i iii in, ocpi. outturn* niHl the Central Powers havo concluded a precise agreement, according to an thorltlve information, says the correspondent at Suloniki, Greece, of The Temps, "Under this agreement Hulgaria will enter the war on Oc tober 15." l Plans tor, the campaign are now 1 being drawn ujp by the Unlgnrlan > general stafT, the correspondent sajys > with' the assistance of numerous Oer - man officers, who have arrived in Sofia. ... , . ' llvlgarlan officers say 'ho attack will b' on Greece J remedw irTiA-iT^Ai V_A/1 ' iltU'i LANCASTER S C , NEW ORLEANS ISOLATED ; BY TROPICAL HORRICAI - Levees Below the City Brofc and Houses Washed ? Away?Lives Lost. \ WIND 90 MILES AN HOI > lamer Mississippi and Ivoujsh Towns Klooded New r liiKlit Plant Out of Service. Mobile. Ala., Sept 29.?New leans and the Missi88:ppt Gulf co toniKht were swept by a tropical h ricnne that demoralized commuti ' tion and led to fears of heavy loss life and property. The Mississi River levees below New Orleans hi broken, houses have been waul away, and at least two lives hi been lost In that section accord to a wireless message late today fr ' the Morgan liner Creole, upw bound for New Oorleans. The business district of Bile Miss., is under six feet of water i train service lias been abandoned cause of washouts throughout a la section about Bay St. Lours. Last reports coming from N Orleans before all means of comt nicatton were lost said the city ^ in darkness because of the flood of electric plants. Wind had dri' , the water in Lake Ponchartr above the sea wall .and Milnebi and other New Orleans subu along the lake were partially uni water. The advices said automobi were bringing in the inhabitants that section, and that no loss of 1 had been reported. The Creole, in a brief message eeived here early tonight, said i was encountering a storm of si fury that it was doubtful whet] roof several houses. The coast guard cutter 'l:illip<< anchored here, made repeated unsi cossfu' efforts tonight to reach wireless the Southern Pacific lii Proteus, believed to be in the cen | of the storm off New Orleans b ' No word has come from the 1'roU since she entered the storm area, a shipping men here thought her wl ! less might have been disabled. Reports of high water in Rib uao * I i?l ?n mni uuiliru 11} lll?' il)UIHVIII<> , Nashville Railroad officials here, w I sp.ld their tracks in Itiloxi were i inundated. They had no conflrn 1 tion of the reported destrui^ion 1 the trestle between New Orleans a ^ Ray St. Louis. i The barometor became statiom hero at 8 o'clock tonight and it v i.believed the worst of the storm li passed. Extent of damuKO to the cit | dnntc the Mississippi coast was 1 definitely stated in dispatches ! reived by railroad officials here, I | Information was to the effect ttfat I storm was the worst in the iist< j of that section ? I ne? wir icss apparatus would k remain intact. The vessel repor sighting two bodies near the sect where the levees had given aw Aside from the fact that some hou had been demolished by the Ik waters the Creole's message gave details. Wireless communication with N Orleans ceased before noon tod and continued inability to re-est lish communication with the pow ful United Fruit station led to fe. that it might have suffered so damage from wind. Flooding of ' electric power plant, however, \ thought by some wireless experts sponsible for the wireless Htutio silence. The wind reached a veloc of 90 miles an hour at New Orlei and Hay St. Louis at 6 o'clock night, according to reports reaohi here. Wire communication was possi tonight only as far as Hay St.. Lei and fragmentary reports from th< ! told of extensive damage to pr< 1 erty but no* loss of life. A lo j trestle of the Louisville & Nashvj ""i'rca l between Pay St. ?,ouls a i New Orleans, was reported to hi | l een swept away. Fe.y detail * n' ( i damage, hov ever. either in that s tion or at itiloxi were obtainable Mobile escaped the worst of I storm, but the wind here was t> (lcient to drive the water over t \vll?rvO? lit th? rivof f r? /-v * f "??' } im. ? IStCI' FRIDAY. OCTOBKK 1, 11)15. NEW ORLEANS HAD H EXCITING TIMES N I ;<'ien| Seven Were Killed, 150 Injured. ?,u $2,000,000 Property ' ^ Damage. J wc JR. WIND 130 MILES AN HOUR ^ uui For More Than Seven Hours the Hur- hi * rieane Swept Over City at Hate se of More Than tiO Miles Hour. e<i lie Or- New Orleans via Baton Kouge, La., ast Sept. 30.?Seven persons dead, at ni( least 150 injured and property damlica ( oj age estimated at more than $2,000,-. D ppi 000 was the result of the tropical J aVe hurricane which swept this city and ^ed section yesterday and last night.; ave Weather bureau reports showtxl that ing it was the worst storm ever expertom enced here. Attaining at one time ar.l a velocity of from 120 to 130 miles A an hour, the wind unroofed hun- ( ?' |Xj dreds of buildings, demolished others vo ilid uie>\ uown teiepnone poles. 1 e,f jje_ signs, trees and wires. r? When the storm's fury had passed I ('u this morning, the streets were lit- 0,1 ;ew tered with debris. Scarcely a large i ,n' nu_ plate glass window remained intact j re' va8 in the downtown section and many ing sto<>hs ?f goods were damaged by j P? ven wi,u' an<* rain. j 'h ain I" the Cumberland Telephone I arg j Company s exchange, 15 persons, j rbsj mostly girls, were injured \vh"n all ( M". derj the windows in the east front on the lies floor where they were working! of crashed in. The maximum velocity life of the wind was reported by thei Weather bureau as between 120 and' re-1 130 miles an hour. The wind blew; sheI at this rate for one minute, between 'S ich 5:30 and 6 o'clock last night. The! ^ ' lier higliest sustained velocity was 8 6 >ng miles, about 5:10 p. in. I ne tea For more than seven hours thej ion hurricane swept over the city at a a>'. rate of more than 60 miles an hour ? 1 til st>8 The lowest mark registered by the pa >od barometer was 28.11 at 5:30 p.m.,i,e] no which according to local weather i to bureau ofllcials, is the lowest mark ew ever registered in the United States.! fjr ay. Police and fire departments were ] s|, nb- kept busy late yesterday responding ?ei er- to calls for assistance and invest! : ars gating reports of collapsed buildings. To me Two hundred young women were re-i the | moved by the police in automobiles i i ns I and police vehicles from a cigar fac-1 ori rt*-j tory threatened with destruction just1 tic n'sj before nightfall. They were housed ' Or ity in the criminal court's building un-i ha ins til the storm abated. i th< to" Numerous school buildings andjun 'nR churches were destroyed or badly J? damaged by the wind. Approximate- Kfl ,)l,> ly 8,000 telephones were rendered fal i useless and trolley service was bus- >u ?re! pended after 3 o'clock yesterday j afternoon. } sy mg laf ,, ' Lake Ponchartrain rose between \ llle ' (in 12 and 14 feet, sending water overt n((J the seawall at West End and Spanish ,ll> ''' I fort and flooding Milneburg street. i no | An Lr pet Davidson Versus Clemson Tigers. j10j Clemson College, Sept. 29. Saturnf day will be a great day from an nth- ^ jie, letic standpoint. The Clemson Tigers' . m-jwill meet the Tarheels from Davidson in a fierce contest on the new ieajathletie field, which will be formally LU.-1 dedicated on that day. and christen- 4>|l by led Itiggs Field. (Jreat preparations are under way looking to make the tcr day one long to be remembered. np ar Yells will reverberate ami songs will S;R us| resound, and there will be much dond 'nK that will interest and amuse be-: jm re-' shlfs the regular program. Notice ()c has gone out to all the old stars and niJ oxi j f?"s and many have signified their on & intention of being on hand. ! hoi vi tot (alitor t'rges Cnion of Churches. de ta-| Hot Springs. Ark., Sept. 29.?Or- , "e ol gaitie union of the northern and nd southern branches of th? Preabyte- 11 . M.ll <11111 I'll U? fSM'imal lO lilt! I1IRUiry est efficiency of tho work or mis de- nn i'fln nomination in the south and south- by iad west, was advocated by Rev. James lai R. Clarke of Nashville, editor of the nu i?-s! Presbyterian Advance, in the opening' dii tot, address to tho Southern District Ktli-j an re- elcncy convention here Approxl-! \a >ut, mately a thousand delegates f ror?\ | the! Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama, Mis-1 to iry slAeipni, M'ssourl, Arkansas. Oklaho-I ta ma and Texas are attending. ; n? ! ? J IA KliKS C. l,.\N<;STO\ 1?KAI>. r r inner Kditor of (lie IntvlllKcnter * at Anderson. Anderson; Special to Charleston jws and Courier Sept. 28.?Chas.. 1-unRston. asred r??: ? ???? ? ..??I _ . , , vl,v Ull IIC? ( per man and secretary of t lie State1 IV ess Association for many years, j l'<1 here this afternoon. Mr. Langston entered newspaper I >rk when a mere lad and served in j e mechanical department of the L eeklv Intelligencer. After the plant was purchased by in and J. Fleet Clinkscales, for'<? veral years Mr. Langston was itor and retired because of ill alth. The funeral will be held here to-j^, >rro?v afternoon. '' RASTIC LAWS ARE a. FREELY PREDICTED ni larleston Will In* l>eult With ^ Strictly us a Part of South 8( Carolina. t'olunib'", Sept. ?.3.--\V'th state- fr de prohibition adopted in South .rolina by a large majority of the te, the up-country is evincing con It-rable interest in the evolution p tween now end Jan.n y 1 rf the 11- g. or situation in Charleston, the a: y eon. .v to regr-?'<;r jii overvvhels< Ing vote against prohibition in the rent election. ^ That drastic legislation for the pm se of prohibition enforcement in pi e state will be initiated at an early n: riod in the next session of the 01 neral assembly, is forecasted in mi-otlicial quarters. Such measures 11 be state-wide in their applicant. but Charleston county bulks ge between the unwritten lines of ry" enforcement act or acts. It Is commonly expressed opinion j the state capital that Charleston | gi not going to be dry when New ar 1916 dawns. That measures to- J*, ird the suppression of liquor ifiie will be necessary in this con-. rt inn is froolv q! q *nri u -4 11 .? J ami 111 til II-j or will be suppressed, is alleged.' Charleston will be dealt with in ( J is matter strictly as a part of South rolina, up-countrymen admit. Af-j tl ntion has been and will continue] be centered upon her merely as a state's wettest spot. She'll not go y without a last-ditch stand, buvj e will go dry in the face of con- [ nplated legislation, it is asserted. |{ day Big Bay at Thormvell Orphan-, "*** P Clinton, Sept. 29.?The Thornwell phanuge was opened for the recep- j. m of children on October 1, 1875, i October 1, 1915, it will therefore . is ve filled out 4 0 years of work for ei e orphans. All this time it has been der the direction of l>r. \V. P. " l e: cobs, its original promoter. It lias j own from eight children to ut nlly of 340, occupying 125 acres' the city of Clinton. At the annual meeting of tliei ' nodical hoard of trustees in J vine i 11 it it was decided that some notice. 81 ght to be taken of the 4 0tli an-,s/ersary of the institution. it 11 erefore elected ex-Cov. Martin F. [ SJ isel of Greenville to address tliejh ople of Clinton on this occasion. e whole county is asked to send a ^ presentation for the occasion will|(' one of interest. The exercises will' held Friday evening in the Car- j na Memorial chapel and a lafge emlanee is expected. ,( ! n cuing of Naval War Game Defer- ti red. 1 g Norfolk. Va.. Sept 28.?The;T eiiing of the naval war game de-'f< ;ned to test the defensive and stra-> u ?ical strength of the Atlantic fleet c s been deferred from Oct. 1 to p t. 6. For fifteen days the "ene- f r" fleet and the home fleet will be s united in a struuule tn resnoctii'oiv .. mile and defend the roast from the' rginia rapes to Cape Cod. the navy o partmenf allowing that time to the c nemy" to make a landing. n Innkors Working to Place l,oau. New York. Sept 29. The bankers r today taking up their job. created the Anglo-French half billion dot- ( r war loan. They are setting the j irhinery in motion for tho printing stribution and listing of the bonds d distributing credit among the ? rious banks. \ As a result of the loan interest < the amount of one hundred and , enty-five million dollars will be , id during the next five years i WEATHER FORECAST I Local rains Frl (lav; Saturday $1.50 A YEAR. ..Mkivil VUUULUULU IN A* TURKEY lesopotnmiu Expedition Driving the Turks Toward Bagdad. _______ n HE TURKS LOSE HEAVILY. cncrnl Nixon Itclntcs Outcome oI Iteeent KiKlHiiiK?I'ubltc Has Itccii (iiven Little Information. London, Sept .23.?The British ave won an important success in esopotnmia. The Turks are in full J treat toward Bagdad. The British re pursuing the retreating Turks. Announcement to this effect was lade in the house of commons today y Austen Chamberlain, secretary of ate for India. Mr. Chamberlain """ iuit*Kra,ms oin General Nixon, commanding the )rce8 in Mesopotamia, relating the utcome of the recent lighting. General Nixon reported that one osition carried by the British con'.ituted a long line of defenses stride the Tigris river. At a point. ?ven miles east of Kut-el-Amara vo brigades crossed the river from le right bank and by a forced march, cached the left wing of the Turkisn osition, carrying it by assault. By ightfa 11 the whole position had been irried. TURKISH LOSSES SEVERE. The Turkish losses in dead are d> ribed as very severe. The Turks ung to their trenches with the reatest tenacity and thev were fill 1 with corpses when the British nally carried them. A number of nns. many rifles, several hundred risoners and a quantity of amraunt* on were captured. General Nixon ives the British casualties as "uner 500." A second dispatch from Generat ixon says: "The enemy's position i advance of Kut-el-Amara was capired with many prisoners and guns, he enemy is in full flight toward agdad. Our forces are pushing ia ursuit. Details will follow." IXSPBNHAHIKS FOR GEORGIA. ill Will be l'ro|M>se?l to the Kvtra Session of Genera! Assembly. Atlanta, Sept. 29.?A state dlscnsary system for Georgia, similar > the one instituted in South C'arona by Governor Benjamin Ryan illman in the otrly days of Tillmanim over there, and which suplantil the open bar-rooms in the Palletto State, will be proposed to the V t r:l iitiBalnn Af ? * ? * v?. me general assemly in lieu of tlie prohibition bills to e offered by tlie Anti-Saloon League irces, and the Fullbright substitutes > the Anti-Saloon League bills. Opoti by the state, loeal option by the iveral counties, a state dispensary ^steni and county dispensaries In lose counties which vote for the lie of liquor is the four-pronged reposition in a bill to be introduced y Representative John W. Rale of loyd. The bill has already been rawn. Hull IMuns Are Strictly hiutrtlol Washington, Sept. 29.?Hull plans ir two new 32,000 ton ?-perflreadaughts, bids for which were adverised recently, are being closely uarded by "the navy department, 'hey Include new ideas regarding depose against torpedo attack. It is nderstood experiments with floating aissons have thrown light upon the roblcnt of guarding ship bottoms rom torpedoes. Provisions and posibly a greater degree of armor over ital sections. Experiments continue. The new ships will virtually dupli,'>te the California class in appearane and will carry twenty 14-inch guns noun ted three in a turret. Speed wenty and a half knots an hour. Wakefield Made the ls?rd Mayor. London, Sept. 29.? Sir Charles Cheers Wnketlold was elected Lord Mayor of London by the council tolay. **ir <'bai lee will succeed Sir t'ltar?is .Johnston, whose term expires in November. Tin- mayor-elect is an iklermnn of London and has been lccorated with the Order of the lesion of Honor. He is head of a manufacturing company.