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The European V Gains Claimed by Germane. Berlin, July 25.-The Germana have crossed the Narew river along a front from south of Ostrolenka to Pultusk. Southeast of Pultusk they are approaching the Bug river. These two advances in Russian Po land are announced in to-day's Ger man official statement. The move ment indicates that the Germans are heading for the Warsaw-Petrograd railway, which runs parallel with the Bug, twelve miles to the southeast. Gen. Buelow's army is engaged in rear guard actions during his for ward movements on the Jesia river. South of Kovno and in the region of Dembowo, six miles northeast of Su walki, several Russian trenches were captured. The Narew river has been crossed on the whole front from south of Ostrolenka to Pultusk. Southeast of Pultusk we are approaching the Hug river. Southwest of Pultusk, despite Brm resistance, the line of Nasielsk Gzowo has been reached. Southwest of Blonie several enemy positions have been captured, while south of Warsaw the villages of Sta nowghiska and Jazgarew have been taken by storm (Jazgarew is ten and i half miles directly south of War saw ). The situation of the German troops in the southeast is unchanged. French Storm German Defenses. Paris. July 2 5. The French olli Clal communication says: "The night was without incident except artillery actions in Artois, near Souche/., between the Aisne and the Oise, in the plateau of Quenne V ie res and in the forest of Le Pot re, Where the cannonade was accompa nied by a lively rifle fusillade. "In the Vosges at Han-de-Sapt we attained a new success. We seized last night powerful (??Minan defen sive organizations which extended be tween the heights of La Fontelle (on the side of HUI t JT) and the village of Launois, and we occupied the southern part of tho village. We made more than 700 unwounded prisoners belonging to four different battalions, and a machine gun com pany." A statement issued to-night said: "In Artois and between the Oise and Ibo Aisne, there have been con tinual artillery actions. "On the north bank of the Aisne, in th*> vo?in" Troven "'. wM' " ?.he ' 'h. nc..,.! ^. en the Perl h..; Beause.iouv fi ut, min ng operation . ? iias beeu intermittent. In tue Vos ges our troops, notwithstanding the bombardment, have organized posi tions conquered yesterday at Han-de Sapt. "The number of German prisoners has increased to 1 l officers and 825 men. of whom only 70 were wound ed. A number of bodies were found in the trendies. "On our side only two battalions of one regiment of the regular in fantry were engaged. Six machine guns already have been recovered from the conquered trenches." 1,500,000 Russian Prisoners. Berlin, July 25.-Russian war prisoners in the hands ot" Germany and Austria-Hungary since the be ginning of the war number more than 1,500,000 officers and men. it is an nou need. Six Sunk by Submarines. London, .Inly 25.- -Tim British steamer Firth of vorth, bound from France for Firth ?f Forth, was tor pedoed to-day 'bj a submarine In the North Sea. Four of the crew were drowned by tho explosion. The ves sel was of 10t> tons. The Grimsby trawler Perseus was destroyed to-day by a mine. Her crew of ten were killed. The French steamship Danae, Liv erpool for Archangel, was sunk off Cape Wrath, Scotland. The trawlers Henry, Charles, Katleen, Activity and Prosper were sent to tho bottom in the North Sea. The chews of all these vessels were saved. The Da nae was attacked by two submarines. Crews of the trawlers declare one underwater crafl was sunk by bombs and guns fired from tho trawlers. The Danae was a vessel of 1,505 gross tonnage, and was 257 feet long, 35 feel beam and drew M feet of water. Two More Sunk. London, July 25.-Tho Russian ship Robenia has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Her crew of 30 was landed on Hie Orkney Islands. The trawler Star of Pe.ice nlso was torpedoed and sunk off the Orkneys and her crew landed at Stromness. Norwegian Steamer Sunk. London, July 26.-Tho Norwegian steamship Fimreit. of 3,819 tons gross, was sunk to-day by a German eubmarino. The crew was landed at Stornoway, Scotland. British .Steamer Sunk. London, July 26.-The British steamer Orangewood, of 3,4 22 tons gross, bound from Archangel, Rus sia, for Havre, Franco, has been tor pedoed and sunk in the North Sea by y ar Day by Day. j a (?orinan Hubmarine. The crew landed to-day at Lorwick, Scotland. Russian Defense still Holds. Petrograd, July 27.-The official war office statement to-day says: "III the direction of Tukum to wards Sblok (midway between Tu kum and Riga) the enemy's offen sive, which began Saturday, was re pulsed with tho assistance of ships' anns (evidently on vessels in the Gulf of Riga. ) 'Worth of the Niemen the enemy approached the Porno wlaz-Key dan front. On the road to Kovno, from the southwest, there has been some light i ii g. "On the Narew front the enemy continues unsuccessfully to att. ck our positions of the Plsza river, .. ar the village of Sinvatki. South of Rozan, after a stubborn encounter with the (lennans who had crossed the Narew, we threw them back in the region near the mouth of the Orz as far as the village of that name. "Southeast of Pultusk (north of Warsaw) the enemy's attacks were repulsed. Small engagements were begun with the advanced defenses of Novogeo rgievsk. "On the left bank of the Vistula, enemy attacks on ivangorod's ad vanced works were repulsed with success. Between the Vistula and the Vieprz, the artillery duel con tinues. "Rid ween the Vieprz and the Rug the battle continues with great in tensity. On the 25th the enemy at tacked along this whole front with the exception of the immediate vicin ity of the Vieprz. "North of C. ru hoi how t he enemy delivered an energtic attack with strong forces, hut our troops repuls ed almost ali the assaults and suc cessfully counter attacked. There has been no ( hangi- on this front ex cept in a few villages which pass from hand to hand. ..There has been no lighting on the Rug, tho /dotti Lipa or the Dniester. "Ill the Black Sea on Sunday our torpedo boats operating in the coal region, destroyed forty sailing ships laden with coal. They also destroyed a new coal shaft and a suspension bridge. Heidin Statement Hitlers. Rerlin. July 27.-The German olli cial bulletin states that in the east ern war theater "an attack from .Mitau was repulsed. Between Pos wol. south of Mitau and south of the Niemen river, we are following the retreating enemy. 'Russian attempts yesterday to push back our troops advancing across the Narew river by a great simultaneous attack from the linc ol' Goworowo, east of Rozan. Wyszkow, and Serock (south ol' Pultusk) com pletely failed. We captured 3,319 Russians and 13 machine guns. "To the east and southeast of Rozan our troops are pursuing the defeated enemy who advanood from "Fighlitij! for th< Prut, south as: ? nf Pultusk, is proceeding. j i "Tho situation before Novogeorgie I ?sk and Warsaw *s unchanged. Lin_........ .NUI theater j there is nothing new to report In the region of Ivangorod." COWBOYS CAPTURE ABDUCTOR, Who Admits (hitit-Thought Ho Could Hundi? Some Money. Idaho Falls. Idaho, July 23.-Cow boys lalo to-night captured the ab ductor of Ernest A. 'Empey, a wealthy rancher, kidnapped several days ago and held for $(5,OOO ransom, accord ing to a report received here. The bandit, it is said, came down from Sheep 'Mountain at nightfall and was taken. Bm pey had escaped. 'He was found to-day by United States forest rangers and is safe at Mont Pel 1er, according lo advices reaching here. Do Good With Money. Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 25.-Lon Dean, a sheep herder, who admits be kidnapped E. A. Em|>ey, a wealthy ranchman, was lodged in jail to-day by cowboys, after a hard ride lo save their captive from lynchers. Dean wits captured on Sheep Mountain last night, after Em poy had escaped while Dean slept. Dean said: "I took this means of getting money, as 1 thought I could do more good with it than those who had it. ( had not thought of the anx iety the kidnapping of Empey would cause the family." After abducting Empey at tho point of a gun at bis ranch 40 miles from here several days ago, Dean took him to ti hut on Sheep Moun tain, five miles from the ranch. Em pey's young son was sent to notify the family that Empey would be killed unless a ransom of $15.000 was deposited at a designated spot. The ransom was raised yesterday and would have been paid. ::oo Hales of Cotton Damaged. Woodruff. July 24.-Fire of in known origin was discovered yester day morning about 4.20 o'clock in one of the cotton warehouses of the Woodruff Cotton Mills. The damage has not been estimated. About 300 bales of colton were damaged, but none totally destroyed. The ware house contained about 000 bales. Eleven Farm Laborers Drowned. Lima, Ohio, July 21.-Reports from Kon'.on say eleven farm labor ers aro believed to have been drown ed In tho flooded section. The canoe they attempted to escape in was found capsizod. OVER SOO LIVES ARE LOST In Steamer Disaster at Docks in Uiver ut Chicago? Chicago, July 24.-Approximately 1,000 persons lost their lives in the Chicago river to-day by the capsizing of the excursion steamer Kastland, while warping from its wharf with more than 2,100 employees of the Western Electric Company and their relatives and friends on board, bound for a pleasure trip across Lake Michi gan. After working ceaselessly all day and far into the night the bodies of 812 victims of the catastrophe, most of thom women and children, were collected in temporary morgues and taken to the Second Regiment ar mory. When these bodies bad been tagged Coroner Hoffman, taking into consideration estimates of bodies thought to be In tho hold of the steamer, lying on its side in the river, and in the stream itself, said he believed the total dead would not exceed 1,000. Steamer Declared Tophoavy. The Kastland, said hy marine ar chitects to have been top-heavy and ballasted in an uncertain manner, turned over inside of Ave minutes af ter it began to list, pouring its pass engers into the river or imprisoning them in its submerged hull. Every effort was made by thou sands of persons on the river wharf to rescue the drowning men, women and children, but many went down almost within gra.sp of the river bank. Mothers went lo death while j their children were snatched to safe ty, other children died In the arms of their parents, who Anally were: saved. Hundreds of girls, freed for a day from their tasks of making telephones and other electrical ap paratuses in the factory of thc West ern Electric Company, dressed In their .smartest white frocks, drowned. A pall of sorrow hung to-night over the entire West Side of Chicago, where the majority of tito victims lived. Every Home in Mourning Kulin avenue, a small street near I the fac tory of the Western Electric j Company, was In universal mourn- j lng. Every house lost from one to j all of its occupants in the disaster, and many of the residents of this' street to-night lay in the morgue or j beneath the steel hull of the East i !.'.?? 'bhadno; .- '. co. . bib- nu id roda i of tuen soarche i . r more bod ? Efforts to discover tho cause of j ?he accident ; begun long bet?re! the work of rescue was over. Fede ral and county grand juries were or dered, a coroner's jury was impan elled and all of the officers and crew of the Eastland were arrested. W. C. Steele, secretary and treasu rer of the St. Joseph-Chicago Steam ship Company, who owned the East land, built on Lake Erie in 1903, and remodelled later because top-heavy, it is said, was arrested to-night and locked up at a police station. The steamer was leased 'by tho Indiana Transportation Company, whose of ficers said they were not responsible for the licensing of the ship and did not control the crew. Cutler misty skies 7,000 men, wo men and children went to Hie Clark street dock early to-day to fill five large lake steamers with holiday mirth in a trip to Michigan City. The steamer Eastland was tho first to be loaded. Rain began to fall as the wharf superintendent lifted the gangplanks from the Eastland, declaring that the government limit of 2,f>00 passen gers had been reached. The passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship as the other steam eio drew up the river towards the wharf. A tug was hitched to the Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off and the steamer's engines began to hum. The Eastland bad not budged, however. Instead the heavily laden ship wa vered sidewise, leaning first towards the river bank. Tho lurch was so startling that many passengers joined the large concourse already on the river side of the deck. Thc ship never heeled back; it turned .slowly, but steadily, toward its left side Children clutched the skirts of mot tieri and sisters to keep from falling. Water began to enter lower port holes and tho hawsers tore out the spikes to which the ves sel was tied. Screams from passengers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on tho dock awaiting the next steamer. Wharfmen and picnickers soon lined the edge of the embank ment, reaching out helplessly to wards the wavering steamer. Eor nearly five minutes tho ship turned before it faally dived under the swift current of the river. Dur ing tho listing of the vessel life boats, chairs and other loose appur tenances on the decks slipped down the sloping floors, crushing the pass engers towards the rising waters. Then there was a plunge, with a sigh of air escaping from the hold, mingled with crying of children and shrieks of women, and the ship was on the bottom of the river, casting hundreds of living eren tures to the water. (?rab AnytlUng in Hench. Many sank, entangled with cloth ing and bundles, and did not rise, but hundreds came to the surface, seized boating chairs and other ob jects. Persons on shore threw out ropes and dragged in those who could hold these life lines. Em ployees of commission linns along the river threw crates, chicken coops and other floatable objects into the water, but most of these were swept away hy the current. Boats put out. tugs rushed to the scene with shrieking whistles and many men jumped into the river to aid the drowning. With thousands of spectators r< -iv to aid and the wharf within gi .6Pi hundreds went to death despite every effort at rescue. / One mother grasped her two chil dren in her arms as she Blipped from the steamer into the water. One child was torn from ber, but she and the other were saved. Fathers were drowned after aiding their wives and children to safety. One man was seen to cling io a spike in tho side of the wharf, while two women ?md throe children stepped upon his body to safely. Ile fell exhausted into the river as the last one of the five readied the pier. Instances of heroism were almost as ii ii in ero us as the nu ni her of per sons on the scene. Boats as soon as full took rescued passengers to the wharf or to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt, which was lied up oppo site the Eastland. Bodies Floating Bown Uiver. In an hour the water was cleared of excursionists. Those who had not been taken to land had sunk or were swirling down the river towards tho drainage canal locks at Lockport, 111., many miles away. The locks were raised to stop the current and arrangements were made to take bodies from the river alun": Its course through the southwest part of Chicago. Shortly after the water was cleared citjyflremen and workmen were on thel exposod side of the Eastland's hull, cutting through its steel plates with gas Hames. Divers were hur ried into under-water suits and a tug was moored f.s a bridge between tho pi and the rt [mixed ship. \s im dlvei. u.c. ied entrance to the ??.'! the scone of distress moved '.or le time bi.mg from the river lo lb?- extemporized moiguob. Ware houses of wholesale companies along the river were thrown open and the bodies were placed in .- _> on the floors. Scores of persons rescued from the water were injured and these were taken to the Iroquois Hos pital, built in memory of the 600 women, children and a few men, who were burned and crushed to death in tho Iroquois Theater several years ago. Efforts to resuscitate those taken from the river were generally unsuc cessful. Only two or three were thus saved. It also was said that many of the injured would die. 1,703 Reported Safe. Chicago, July 25.-The deatli shi| Eastland to-night had given up 82tl bodies. Tile estimated total of those who went down to death in thc Chi cago river yesterday morning when the steamer, bearing 2,480 excur sionists, rolled over at her dock re mained at approximately 1 .ooo. Ol those on board at the time of the ca tastrophe, 1,702 have reported them selves safe. Of tho 588 remain Inf unaccounted for, it. ls believed 40? are alive and that 188 bodies are ir the river. About three-score bodies were re covered to-day. Hy noon divers ha< concluded that all bodies had beei removed save those crushed in tin mud under the Eastland's port sid and those that had gone down th river. Investigations in Full Swing. Three investigations in full swin here to-day aimed at ascertaining th cause of the Eastland disaster. Dick orson N. Hoover, government steam boat Inspector, and Federal Supervl sor Charles Westcott arrived froi Washington and conferred with th local inspectors gathering facts fo the Federal grand jury, ordered en panelled Tuesday. MacLay Hoyne, State's nttorno} had a full force of men locating wii nesses to go before the county gran jury to-morrow. Thc police department has obtah ed evidence of criminal negllgenc In connection with the wreck, Chh Healy hinted. He said valuable ii formation was found in insi>ectia lispers seized yesterday In Capt. I Pedorsen's cabin. These papers, a cording to meager Informatlo showed the boat was permitted I carry 2,000 passengers and a crew < seventy. A notary public acknowledge moro good doods than he does. BOUNTY LAND AND VICINITY. Community i*roud of Seneca's Bi? Show-Personal Hems. Bounty Lam!, .July 26.-Special: This ?oction is very much in need of rain. Mrs. J. I?. Pickett has returned from a visit of some length to her children in Greenville. Hamlet, N. C.. and Sandy Springs. Miss Clyde Smith is expecting as fortnight guests Mrs. Dinniekor and little daughter, of Orangeburg. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shnnklin and children, of Anderson, wore week-end guests of relatives in the community. Mrs. .lames O'Kelley and daughter, of Columbus, Ga., and Mrs. Rhoddie Crenshaw and daughter, of Newry, were visitors hist week at the home of B. L. Stone. Mrs. Frances Clayton and Miss (Marinda Orr, of Addie. N. C., spent a few days last week with their sister, Mrs. R. N. Rankin. Miss Carrie Smith's friends are de lighted to hoar of her return Satur day from Rock Hill, where she at tended the State Summer School for Teachers. Mr. and Mrs. J, O. Simmons, of Dion nt Springs, Ala., were guests last week of the latter's sister, Mrs. J. M. Adams. Miss Cary Doyle opened school on the 19th at .Norton, where she has been elected to assisi lt. M. Davis, who is principal of the Behool. Miles McMahon will leave August 1st for entrance into Ibo Habitu Cap Industrial School. Mrs. J. M. Adams and son Lester \isitod at Townvjlle recently. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Alexander and four children, of Whitewater, were guests of relatives in the community last week. Miss Rossie King, of Central, was a guest last week tit the home of her uncle, Capt. A. H. Ellison. The committee on arrangements for the Bounty Land school reunion picnic (which is to be held August t?) are asked by their chairman, B, L, Stoiie, to meet at \'?. o'clock Monday, Au- ust '1. to arrange the grounds for the occasion. All the men and boys of the community who are interested will kindly bear this in mind and assist in tlie work. We hope to make August 6th a day long to bo remembered as being characterized by its unalloyed pleasure, and our people are looking Forward iv 'li hap ' pj anticipations to tho general homo coming ot their friends arid former 1 ? i hool 'nate? it ii. needless to .-.i> that tho entire community attended the Oconee Far mers' Chautauqua; nor ls it neces sary to say that we believe it to be one of the grandest, most interesting and instructivo institutions or "r-i-ies af meetings for tho general informa tion and uplift of our people that has Bver been held in the county. Our county should indeed be proud of Seneca and grateful to ber for the benefits received at these meetings, ind for the boundless hospitality of her people during the entire week. We have no Idea of the cost, of this chautauqua to the citizens of Seneca, bul the estimate of its value to the county is incalculable, and we be lieve and hope that the bread thus 'cast upon tho waters" will not he long in returning. We are also quite proud of the [arm products exhibited by those of Mir own vicinity, W. T. Hubbard ind Robt. McDonald-or, rather, wo mould say, we are proud of the men un WOFFORD SPARTANB A Christian College with high standar oratories and Library. Strong Facti begins September 15th. Write for cat HENRY N. SNYC WOFFORD COLLEGE A high grade preparatory school fi fill moral training. $1S5.00 pays nil e: For catalogue addn ss HEADMi SPARTANBURG, 1 For S Ballenger Hardware ? 8ENECA SENECA'S CHAUTAUQUA GREAT. Richland Appreciative-Hov. G. G. .Mayos Preached Good Sermons? Richland. July 26.--Special: De spite the abundance of raia that wo had several weeks ago, crops in til is community are beginning to suffer Tor rain. The crops have been well worked and there is very little grass anywhere now. Cotton is rather .small, but with favorable weather would make an average yield. Corn is needing rain badly, for this is tho critical period in its growth. Mr. and .Mrs. O. 10. Cashin and children, of Westmnster, spent the latter pari of the week at the homo of T. B. VVyly. Robert Davs, who is teaching at Old Pickens, visited homefolks yes terday. Dr. and Mrs. B. O, whitten spent the week-end at tho home of J, J, Ra Men ger. Edward Vernor arrived yesterday afternoon from University, Ala., to take his vacation. Since June ho bas been ut tenu!:,g the summer school at the University t>f Alabama, lie will hi> at home until the first of Septem ber. Mrs. Sloan Mince and John Bruce, of Georgia, visited at the homo of J. R. Slribling yesterday. Rev. G. (!. Mayos, oi Greenville, superintendent ol' Local Home Mis sions in South Carolina, addressed Richland Sunday school and preached In the interest of home missions yes terday morning. He attended and took part in the exercises in Seneca yesterday afternoon, but returned and preached an excellent sermon in Richland church last night. Special music had been prepared by the choir and a good congregation was present ?it both services. Mr. Mayes came to this church in acceptance of an invitation sent him by the Ladies' Missionary Society, but he was wel comed by ?ill our people, and his ser mons were highly beneficial to every one. It seems that the "she-talker" se cret at Seneca was whispered all ove* the county and even to adjoining counties, and everybody was there and impressed with Hie whole-souled and hearty welcome, the thoughtful ness and genuineness of the hospital ity and entertainment, tho uplift, the hand-to-hand and heart-to-heart iffecl of tho '?ig nmt i and splendid consummation of Ihe whole plan, We rue up in meeting to move that Ocouee county teed to Seneca ? .it...... toto oi thanks foi the broad est and most cosmopolitan social, industrial and dometslc affair ever pulled off in Ocouee! "Seneca has moulded into the face of Oconee a smile of appreciation and approval that won't rub off or wear out. Thanks to Seneca! Walhalla has had her school fair; Seneca has had her chautauqua; Westminster ' Is up against it", then Richland "on nock." who raised and exhibited those pro ducts. Moth those men have well Improved farm lands and understand t hoir business. Mrs. R. N. Rankin had a painful attack last week of acute Indigestion. Dr. E. C. Doyle was called in and tho patient is Improving and we hopo will soon be convalescent. Miss Susan Doyle spent the week end in Seneca as a guest of Misses Louise Dendy and May Strlbling. COLLEGE H? URG, S. C. ds and ideals. Well equipped Lab ity and full courses. Next session iilogue. 1ER, PRESIDENT. : FITTING SCHOOL. ?r boys, individual attention. Oare cpenses. Next session September 15. ASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA alt hy b Furniture Company, i, s. o.