The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 17, 1916, Image 3
MAY ATO STRIKE
(OR LEADERS PLEASED WITH
WILSON’S CONFERENCE
BOTH SIDES SEE WILSON
President Conforx'With Four llroth-
c«hoods’ Representatives Monday
Morning and 'With Managers
Afterwards—Outlook Gloomy Hut
Chance of Settlement Exists.
Railroad manufters and brother
hood leaders, deadlocked in nego
tiations which threaten a nation
wide railroad strike, Monday laid
their case, lie fore President Wil
son at Washington. • .
First came thirty-five represen
tatives of the brothertTBSjdsr'H'ho
conferred with the nresiuent
shortly after ten o’clockV^They
were followed by' the committee
of managers. • -
The brotherhood men went into
the conference firm in their deter
mination not to accept an arbitra
tion under the N'ewlands act which
they contended always has furnished
arbiters before whom the men did
not have an unprejudiced opportun-
tty.
There were some indications that
tlie president recognizing JLliat view,
might propose a special arbitration
before inboard of twelve members or
Which the four great brotherhoods
BRYAN SCORES HUGHES’
CIVIL SERVICE CHARGES
Commoner Tells Kansas City People
x •
How Charley Served Bosses
' r .In Xew York.'
William J. Bryan replied in New
York Friday to criticisin'of his atti
tude toward civil service made by
Charles E. Hughes in a statement in
which he said he “had enforced the
civil service law to the letter.” Mr.
Bryan challenged the Republican
honiinee to state whether he had
gYven appointments to I’deserving
Republicans” while governor of New
York.
Recent .speeches of Mr. Hughes
kuoted a letter Mr. Bryan had writ
ten to Vick, receiver of customs in
Santo Domingo, inquiring as to what
position could be obtained to “re
ward deserving Democrats.”
"I am not ashamed of it,” the
statement read. “The letter was
written to an appointive officer
whose office was not under the civil
sej-vice and the inquiry was made in
regard to offices which were not
under the civil service.”
The statement, after declaring Mr.
Hughes to have “shown himself
quit? prompt in discarging obliga
tions,” declares:
“As an official, I enforced the civil
service law to the letter, and upon my
resignation received from the em
ployees in the st^ate department,
more than ninety-per cent, of whom
were under the civil service, a watch
which I prize as a priceless treasure.
But, while I observed the civil ser
vice law wherever it was in force, I
could lie sepresented. The presl-lfelt myself free to aid In rewarding
DEFEISTHE NAVE
DANIELS QUOTES EXPERTS ON
IMPROVED MARKSMANSHIP
^ FLEET
Secretary Shows I’p Article Entitled
“A Hitless Navy” and - Produces
Testimony Explainii^t the Great
Strides Being Made In Securing
Hits at Distances Greater Than
Ever Before.
TOXAWAY DAM BREAKS; inflltt IIKF OTRIKF
LAKE POURS INTO S. C. *-UUIlil LIIiL UI lllIlL
"Waters From Artificial I^ike in
North Carolina Comes Into Sen-
era Valley in I-Foot Wall.
The I^ajie Toxaway dam, weaken-'
ed by the recent floods, broke Sun-1
day night, sending a great wall of
water down the valley toward west
ern South Carolina. No lives thus
far have been reported lost and
warnings sent out from several cities
are believed to have enabled most
persons in the path of the flood to
reach, safety.
The - lake, an artificial body of
water, was created in 1902 by East
ern capitalists. It covers 550 acres
to an average depth of thirty feet.
The dam, an eighth of a mile long
WILSON CALLS LEADERS TO
CONFER AT WASHINGTON
STRIKE LEADERS FUN
TO PARALYZE COMMERCE
WORKS TO AVERT TIE UP
destroyed.
dent's plan was to appeal to man
acers and imp on the highest patri
otic grounds to find a way to com
pose their differences without a
strike.
Judge Chambers conferred with
■ President Wil-'on for some time and
arranred for he conferences. Presi
dent Wilson cancelled a long list of
engagements tn orlTer to give all his
•T
sy«
“I’nless th“ president can find a
ad out it means a strike.” said A.
Garris
Rnllwi
nkestnan o' the employees as he
deserving Democrats wherever it
could be done without detriment to
the service.
“The ‘deserving Democrat’ is not
to be depised—he is as much en
titled to recognition as ‘deserving
KeyubHeana.’
“When he was a candidate for
governor Mr Hughes received the
snppprt of the railroads of New York
-WmF'?H r ee«»-r r-i-nhi t¥» d-b; by
vetoing the tpro-cenf passenger rate
bill. He did not describe that as
When a candidate for
nre-ident of t'^ 1 Order shameful. xx nnn a canamau
'onductors. and official | governor, he received the ouplDort of
In response to an article In con
nection with a publication of an ar
ticle entitled “A Hitless Navy,” ....... .
■ ^ , , ■ suffered only minor damage though
Securetary Daniels has given out ^jj e wa8 completely drained.
the following statement: The released waters are rusliing
“The figures quoted purporting to through the Toxaway river valley, a
be the hitting record of six battle kompartlveiy uninhabltated section
,, , , .1 • 'toward the Keowee river, in South
ships made in the battla practice m Caro , inft An(Iersont P , ck p n8 aml
February and March of this year are 0conee countle8 eomp^p,, the t er-
Incorrect. The ships were firing in ritory thr p atened an(1 WR ' rnInK8 wer e
the February and M*rch Practice a ; , honod all , h t ld
screen targets 90 feet long and 30 h .
feet high. The correct scores of the , .
ships mentioned, plotted on a battle-! Persons familiar with the terri-
ship target 600 feet long, 96 feet tor >' expressed the belief that the
beam and 30 feet freeboard, based' w at*‘rs would spread out th®
on the results of the camera obser- uninhabited country immediately
Mediation Fails and Arbitration is
i 'Refused by the Men—President
Sends .Communication Asking Per-
Personal Interviews at Washing
ton and Offer Is Accepted.
Action by President Wilson alone
can avert a general strike on vir-
and fifty feet high, was completely . railroads of the nation
vations, were as follows:
Hits.
Nebraska 22
Louisiana 15
Kansas .. -16
Virginia 26
New Jersey 20
' Rhode Island 3
"The firing was at long range,
much longer than ever " -'fore, the
Rhode Island's mean range ^eing
from fifteen hundred to three thou-
The town of Toxaway : and throwing approximately two mil
lion men out of employment. He
sent the foil wing message to repre
sentatives of both sides Sunday:
“I have learned with surprise
and with ke< n disappointment that
an agreement concerning the set
tlement of the matters in controv
ersy between the railways and their
employees lias proved im{iossihle.
“A general strike on the rail
ways would at any time have a
most far reaching and injurious
.effect on the country. At this
time the effect might lie disas
trous. I feel that 1 have the right,
therefore, to request, and I do
hereby request, as the head of the
government, that Indore any final
decision is arrived at I may have a
Itersonal conference with yotf here.
I shall hold ni) self ready to meet
)ou at any time you may he able
to reach Washington.
south of Lake Toxaway and thus
minimize the possibility of extensive
damage.
The waters ultimately will flow
Into the Savannah river through its
various tributaries in western South
Carolina. The lake was created in
connection with a summer resort
and bad a shore of fifteen miles..The
dam was constructed at a cost of
about fifty thousand‘dollars.
A message- from the railroad tel
egraph operator at Toxaway, de-
the New York tax dodgers, the own-
nardetl th«* train for Washington j ers of ’swollen fortunes,' and he paid
ttly Monday morning. | his debt by sending a message to the
legislature protesting against the in
come tax amendment to the federal
constitution. He does not describe
that as shameful.
“He Is now being rtipported by
fhe railroads of the Fnited States
and expects to pay them bark by
aiding them to escape state legisla
tion snd find a haven of security in
'exclusive federal control' over, the] 8
railroads: he is being supported by
the shipplm: trust nnd experts to pay I)
them back hy helping them to pre- ,,
vent governm''nt competition. He Is
ha 1
*•♦»! ch
airman of the con-
forinn
p* r<]
miniMt.iM
» of railroad man-
•r#rff a
o w!th
eighteen members
of tiU
went to Washing-
toy) or
1 III
g - ! Tl! • ‘
train' that carried
the tl
Mrn
r rrorr
sentatlve.x of the
brotho
rhoi
iff
‘gates, placed re-
billt
jr upon
the men for the
Tilhtr#
* of
attrvni
Ms at mediation.
irro 1
r«nn pa!
•1 that the untend-
1 1 it »i
do of t
Iho ra'lfnad man
t . i ,
ic fqr the break.
PrfM
it WIVfK
in called the repre-
pontntl
iW'M
of th*» 1
!>rntherhoods to-fhe
\\ Ii|ti*'
-Ho
lift** at
ten octofk and ar-
(i i* • *i
1 to
1600 tllO
rommltfee of man-
i 111 TU
lodfatrh
r afterward. *
Tho
pr<
r»*ldont ’«
» conference with
t ti»• f))
on
wan op<
rned with a state-
mont
t»v
Mr. Oa
rretson as spokes-
nan/
Mo
outline
d the demands for
rht-1
iou** dn
y and time and a
half f<
r>r n
vortinio
He insisted that
sand yards greater than that of the | scribing the breke of the dam. aaid a
other vessels mentioned. This was | 8 ® <> *l on of tlie structure about the
due to errors in rauge-flnde( read-J*l* e a gave way withoirt
Kvm i»rraai 1 warning shortly after seven o'clock
ed* r*nges the Rhode* Island s shots Sunday ind that the entire structure'
were bunched, as shown by the fact | Collapsed under the weight
that on the battleship's target ahe °F the’thousands of tons of water, i
received eight hita 0ne version of the cause of the!
• rapt. Sims, „nc of our .hie-1 of- w “ ,h \‘ ‘
Ity oITtarget practice, stated la offl- »'•£ ,h * fouBdatloD at :
cial hearing* liefore the House naval I * fi®*" > P r ®
affairs committee that the 'marks-1 Toxaway
nianship of the fleet lias Improved °f the lake
Final Steps Taken to Stop Every
I'ansenger and Freight Train on
Systems of America.
If President-Wilson fails to per
suade the r'allfoa'fi men and their
employers to settle their differences
and a general strike ia called it will
be directed from headquarters In
New York. This announcement waa
made Monday as the leaders of the
four big railway brotherhoods and
the' railroad managers reached
Washington for a conference with-
the head of the nation.
At brotherhoods headquarters it
was Nivid that all preparations had
lieen made for putting into effect a
strike that would stop every train,
passenger aml freight, on the 225
railway systems of the Fnited States.
The critical s'ate of affairs was in
dicated by the anxiety displayed In
every big industry which would be
crippled by the failure of transpor
tation.
Authorities declared that while the
national labor laws gare _the presi
dent no right to Interfere'offlcially,
the broad police powers vested in
him gave him authority to put sol
diers on the trains, and even to de
clare martial l$w if he believed the
peril of the situation called for such
drastic measures. Attention was
flailed to the last national railroad
strike in 1894 when President Cleve
land used the regular army to guard
locomotives and cars.
The tension in business circles
showed a realization of the acute
danger of a national calamity. An
aggregate of financial losses running
perhpps Into hundreds of millions,
labor idleness and food privation,'
were some of the possibilitlM which
a strike presented.
It was to be remembered, businesa
mod said, that there is dharcely a
factory of any Importance which
does sot depend on a railroad for Ha
products. A strike, for Instance,
would mean tfiaT the"steel mills of
After deliberating two hours the
railway work ts accepted the invita
lion as the managers had done. They
announced that the leaders of the
mur railroad brotherhoods would
leave for Washington at midnight. I Pittsburgh will be cut off from their
accompanied by thirty of the six him- j ore supplies In Michigan and Wla-
dred delegates assembled in New | consin, and the automobile* tndus-
40 |ter cent.' A great many elements
enter inte the preparation and train
ing of the crew of a battleship. Of
these the human element la the I
greateat, and as long as this la so
there will be, as In every other en
deavor In life, varying degrees of
accomplishment.
Yhe practice of some ships will i
excellent, ot others loss good and |
le will be poor, but
ntly occurs that a
1 poor thli
and that
d point.
is the third and largest
tn western North Caro
lina mountains to go out since July
16, when heavy rains caused aertous
floods In that section.
York. An hour later the railroad'
managers, nineteen In number, said j
that they would leave for the capital
at the same time.
The final break in the negotiations |
the
railroad men and their j
rurred Sunday after a
lien
*rt
t i
CRUISER VISITS PENSACOLA
lx
arbitrating
ition. The
it a lament ls-
Frerh RattleMilp ■*.)* My*U-ri-
»ar |s exet
ship that
supported hy the trust magnete* and
(expects to pay them back by shield
ing them from punishment for the i V( , ar f a || a 0 ff badly next year,
extortion which they desire to prac-l},, due (hiefly to the human el
he Is supported by Wall Street “Admiral Fletcher. "T^e eon
er-ln-chief of the Atlantic fl<
Thl
WH
ig out
Hi
and expects to pay them back by
rpending American blood and squan
dering money raised by taxation in
order to guarantee profits on specu-
were fair. President | iative investments. And yet with the
addressed l^, - ' men, record which he baa made In paying
rhil dlsaaler wotlld fol-1 bis 'pdllflraF obligation* at the rx-
nt.
sting that an pense of the public and with the
reached. • pledges his speeches contain to those
n arked the *pe-|«bo are now aiding his ambitions,
he has the impudence to hold up for
criticisms a legitimate effort to re
ward competent men for service
which ihoy have rendered to the
cause of reform.”
strike and in
nent must l>*
president th
fiters on which the employees
ireparcd to Insist. Mr. Garret-
Id trout of the talking for the
md lie and the prekidint dls-
! the situation thoroughly. Mr.
i erom^ed to take the ds-
i up with the managers in ftn
to find s common ground on
the two s'lle* could meet. Hel
e was anxious to settle the dif-|
ns quickly ;>s possible and was Charleston
1. to remain in continuous
oner nil dwy if necesasry.
conference was held In the |
room of the While House. I
crowds of tourists gathered
e lawn in front of the White
to hear news of Hie proceed-
SEIZE CAR OF BOOZE
ston Constable* Appropriate |
$3,000 Worth of Reor. *
t. In
hla official hearings before the
House naval committee in March of
this year, stated, 'Our last elemen-
I tary target practice waa held in the
1 fall. Tlial practice x»a» very sattw-
fartory, and was not only up to the
| usual standard, hut the |M*rrrntage
of hits on the target was about 40
|M*r rent, greater than they were the
year before, and better than. In .any
previous target practice (elemen
tary practice lever held at sea. This
elementary practice is what is gen
erally known as the gun pointers’
test, and that probably represents
the efficiency of our target practice
as far as straight shooting Is con
cerned
Visit to Ameri
he battle emit
of t
he French nav;
Pern
tarola Saturday
coal
and has no
The
Amlral Aube.
rani'
n directly to Pe
link
iue, consuming
weel
ks on the trip.
»d.
the real caust
definitely known.
Marine observer#. Including pilots,
almost to a man. are of the opinion
don. The
arbltratloi
listed on
gent propo
liators In a
sued Sunday night declared, how
ever. the men rejected their propoel-
tloa, contending that they would not
arbitrate even If the railroads waiv
ed the contingent proposition.
A statement of the mediators. Is
sued by Judge Martin A. Knapp,
chairman of the board. Just before
their departure for Washington,
■aid,:
‘‘After repeated efforts to bring
about aa arbitration of the pending
She came, so the* controversy ketween the railroads
ise she could en- 1 and their employees In train and
yard service, tlie I'nlted Stales board
of mediation and rourtliatioa waa
adtrlxed by the rrpresesitalivea of the
Sunday without i employees that they would not sub-
r visit becoming mlt the matters in dispute to arM-
| traliou In any form.
“Their employees further stated
to the board that they would not
ter Amlral Aube.j
y, which put Into
, wa» not short of
need of supplies.,
. ft was learned,
nsacola from Mar- 1
a little over two'
M
other gulf port and It wan
ry that the papers be deliver-
te captain In person,
crelaer left
it h
tries of Michigan from supplies of
I steel from Pittsburgh, the cotton
I mills of New England from their eot-
I ton from the south, the garment
' manufacturers of New York from
htheir cloth from New England, and
every industry everywhere will be
cut off from coal to feed their fur-
! nacee and dynamos.
Of mfire Immediate seriousness
would be the question of food sup
ply. The large cxunmumilies which
receive the hulk of their food farftn
| long distance* would he forced to
! rely on what |ir<«lurta could be
I brought In by wagon, automobile,
In4ley or vesaei.
r The suspension of the country's
'exports, the congestion of Imports at
coast sities the stranding ot hnn-
' J reds of thousands of travsiern and
summer resort visitors far from their
! horn** —these are other poesibilitiee
which the strike situation presents
to aay nothing of Its effect on the
i railroads themselves and their em
ployees.
that 'the cruiser's principal reason 1 arbitrate their own demand even If
bette
of practice.'
“Referring
battle pract
said. ‘AM t!
passed into v
than any other furn:
’m
*-Q S rwyq s for'averting a nation
wide railway strike, or at least for
the formulation of some tentative
program which will be the ground
work for further negotiation, bright
ened Monday after President Wil-
(iii had conferred with thirty-five
chiefs of the great brotherhoods.
After the conference, the brother
hood men declared the president’s
grasp of the situation and the posi
tion of the men might result In an
understanding being reached, and
others in touch with the ctmferenee
said the representatives of the men
showed a disposition to co-operate to
avoid a strike. ,
After i hearing tn® leaders of the
Tneir-twb hours, the president sent
for the managers for a conference at
three o’clock. How far whatever
progress made at the conference
with the men can go toward averting
a break cannot be determined upon
until after the president con-fers
with the manager's com’mittee.
The president, aeccordihg to those
who attended the morning-confer
ence. showed a familiarity with the
situation thaf surprised the men.
“The president was most sympa
thetic,’’ said one of the brotherhood
leaders, “and'his Sarprising knowl
edge nf Hie situation and of our posi-
li'on may, result in an understanding
being reached.’’
The Impression prevailed among
the' brotherhood leaders that as a
last res?ort. the president might ask
congress for eight-hour legislation.
CAPTURE MARIAMPOL
Russians Take Important City in
Galicia From'Austrians. __
'MarfiamM, In Galicia, neven miles
southeast of Hallcz, the town of Pod-
glacy and several villages along the
Chief Duncan, of the State con
stables, and a squad of his men, top-' phase, which h
ped off that a carload of beer would
arrive in Charleston Friday morning,
took charge of the car when it was
sidetracked at the McCabi Chemical
company’s works early in the day
and late in the afternoon were still
engaged in ha’uling the one hundred
and twenty barrels of unlabeled beer
which the Car cohtained and storing
it In the constabulary office in Court
House square.
It is the largest seizure of beer
bver made In Charleston county aud
the largest seizure of any alcoholic j
beverages of any consequence made
by State constables since they were
taken “out of the city’’ by orders
from the governor.
The constal les estimate the value
of their seizure on a basis of thirty
dollars a barrel, or a total of thirty-
six hundred dollars, which is said by
them to be the preseht retail price.
The market value or wholesale price
makes the seizure worth about twelve
hundred dollars. There are one hun
dred and twenty bottles of beer to
the barrel, a total of fourteen thou
sand Tour hundred bottles.
to the long range orj
re. Admiral Fletcher
is target prartice ha«
hat we may term a new
been brought ab«ut 1
for entering the barb
i soundings and to get first hand in-'
'formation of the port. Soundings!
, taken when she approached, croased
and left the bar did not attract 4t-
, tentlon, but unusually frequent 1
. soundings over sn irregular course
I caused comment among marine men.
r was to make the contingent demands of the rail
roads were withdrawn and also de
clined to suggest any other plan or
method for a peaceful settlement of
the controversy.
“They were informed that their
derision would lie at once made
known to President and al*«
that the president claimed the right
MORE TROOPS TO BORDER
ivlt did not confine his
to soundings, but Im
to a pei-Honal Interview with both
weighing anchor, I part lew before any drastic action waa
tinned until ihe was four - miles off
shore.
NOT A STRONG ISSUE
, TO SUPPORT WILSON
Florida Progressive Declares He Will
Stand for President, r— • •
Edward. R. Gunby, a prominent
attorney of Tampa, delegate to the
Progressive party’s (national conven
tion and one time candidate for gov
ernor of Florida on Ihe Republican
ticket, in an interview at Tampa
Sunday declared that he would sup
port Woodrow Wilson fop president.
Mr. Gunby said he regarded Mr. Wll-
son as muchi more in line with the
ideals of the Progressive party than
is Mr. Hughes.
■ ■■♦♦<> I
The British Bewtexi Back. -
.After a long period ot inactivity
hy this long-rrnge firing. Hereto
fore wc have considered that when
a gun is well aimed at a bullseye, it
will strike'the target, because the
error of the gun. is so small that
any'target of reasonable size at a
distance of a mile or two, will catch
all well aimed shots.
“ ‘But, we are now going to such
long ranges that the gun will no
longer hit the targe.t; it will not
even hit a battleship at a distance
of 18,000 or 20,000 yards, no mat
ter how well aimed or how carefllly
tiie ballistics are calculated. The
way hits are made is by means of
firing what we call a salvo; that is,
the firing of all the guns or a part, d , se at ^ York h followt
? tllZ Ts ^ statement Saturday night from Sec
to inherent defects of the gun and . MrAdon-
ballistics, we cannot cotnt upon reiar y mcauoo.
Capt. Ia>s
observations
mediately after
continued to ascertain the d«y>th of [taken. This request was. of course,
the water whi'e passing tiie east side 1 granted and a large delegation of
of Santa Rosa Island. Marine men i employees with u number of man-
said she wax continually throwing >cers will be In Washington Monday
her lead and that operation con- for
Mar Department brads 83.000 Mili
tia, Making Totoi lOtf.OQO.
The war d^iartment announced
Saturday that all nHlitlamen in mo-
I billxallon ramps, totaling approxi
mately thirty-five thousand men,
wouliC be sent to the Mexican border
| immediately. Arrangements for
their transportation have been made.
Department officials says Ihe or-
j ganizations would not wait to be re
cruited to their full strength,, but
that further recruiting would be
made after departure of the troops.
The troops now on the bprder and
. ... .. .. . in Mexico will be brought up to a
a conference with the president. tota] of approxlniatel y one hundr6d
•Kariy in the negotiations the rail- . h«
McAdoo Rebukes Candidate Hughes
for Pettifogging.
Charges of Charles E. Hughes re
garding the appointment of Daniel
E. Finn to succeed' Henry N. Clapp
gs assistant appraiser of merchan-1
these four or five shots falling with
in a space, at present, of much less
than 400 yards.
“Mr. Hughes Is merely pettifog
ging. He is welcome to a monopoly
of that field. The Clapp case is a
Now, if a target occupies a very unfortunate one for his purpose,
space of 100 yards and you straddle I If I thought that the public was real-
that target with this salvo, you will ly Interested would make-, a state-
see that tbe probabilities or the J ment about it.”
chances of making a hit are about
25 per cent.; so that the best thing to the. elementary target practice in
we can do to-day at target practice, the fall of 1915, says:
Is to bunch the salvo of five or ten
arly
roads had Informed the board of
mediation and conciliation that they
would accept arbitration.”
TJie president notified the media
tors flve_ days ago that they were
authorized to bring to the attention
of the executives of the brotherhoods
the fact that he was anxious for the
two sides to agree and that if they
did not- he personally would take a
) hand. This was after daily com
munications from the mediators had
described the acuteness of the situa
tion.
W. G. Lee, chief of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, made
public official figures of the strike
vote polled .Tune 16. A total of
128,812 votes were cast for a strike
and 4,350 against it.
and seventy^fire thousand men by
this order. w Officials said that the
ord^r would account for thirty
thousand men It was stated author
itatively during the present week
that ninety-eight thousand five hun
dred National Guardsmen are already
there and in addition there are forty
thousand seven hundred regulars.
These figures account for one hun
dred and sixty-nine thousand men,
and the recruiting a ithorized after
the Guardsmen reach the border is
expected to increase the number of
one hundred and seventy-five thou
sand.
KILLS frVEAR’OLD
OPEN FIGHT IN MAINE
Both Parties AVI11 Start Presidential
k -it*
Campaign There.
The present week will see the
opening' of the speech making cam
paign among Maine voters in pre
“ ‘On the completion of this prac-
guns within a space of 300 or 400 ‘ tioe it was apparent that ve^- great
yards, and then straddle the target records of tiie similar practice of the
with that salvo and trust to the preceding year, this increase aver-
prribability of making hits. This-aging about forty per cent, for all 'paration for the State election on
method was so successfully carried battleships that had fired.’ And fur-j September 1. As there will be no
out in the recent long range firing ther, ‘It Is believed that the dlss^m-1 test of strength between Democrat*
in Cuban waters. In some cases the ination pf gunnery knowledge In*the, and Republicans in other states prior
percentage of hits wax as high as at fleet during the past year kas been ( to November 7, leaders of both par-
the shorter range of 10,000 or 12,- greater'than during any similar , ties look upon this contest as a politi-
OOO yards. In one case a ship made period in recent years, and ‘that; cal Index. .
seven hits on this small target out there now evists In the fleet an e*- a j a |
of"forty-two shots. The ship opened cellent gunnery spirit and a thop-
fire at 18,000 yards, aid this dls- ough Interest In the attainment of
tance was gradually decreased, but battle efficiency, which cannot fail
FIGHT NEAR SUEZ
the average range was about 16,000 to bring about a further improve- _ . r«ntraritr«a itenor*.
yards, which Is far in excess of any- meet in the hitting ability of the^ M,,, " tl,lopI * Cnntnaict * "*V<*<*
of British War Office.
Man Shoots Brother-in-Law Suppos
ing Him a Burglar.
Mistaken for a burglar, Roy Smith,
the eight-yearrold son of Sam Smith,
a well known farmer of the Fork
Shoals section of Greenville county,
was shot and instantly killed last
night by his brother-in-law, John
Sullivan, at Mr. Sullivan’s home. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict that
the shooting was accidental, thus ex
onerating SuliivaiL-—
The little boy had gone to spend
the night at the home of his brother-
in-law, a short distance from hla
father’s home. The family had gone
to bed about eleven-thirty o’clock.
Mr. Sullivan was aroused hy a noise
at the back door.
Taking his gun he went to the
door and seeing a dark shadow came
Fto the conclusion that a burglar was
j trying to break in. He opened fire
and killed the youth almost imme-
Constantlnqple re pc that the dlately. I pon investigation. Mr. Sul-
thlng we havd report of from fleet.'
abroad. In response to an inquiry of .. ‘‘Captain Sims, In hit hearings be-
a member of the committee. Admiral fore the House naval committee, M— — -. ._ . . ......
Fletcher skid, ‘I am greatly pleased speaking of Cgpt. PRinkett. director. Turks east oT the Sues canal have WM horrified to find that he
with tbe results of Uie last target of gupucry exercise* end engineer- turned against the Brltikh and eon- killed kin little brother-In-law,
tbe British along the Eophraten in j practice. It shows a high efficiency.’ ing perfornancea. aaid. 'He in the palled them to retreat with heavy
_ _ _ Mesopotamia exempted an advasen. "Admiral Mayo, the present com- best equipped man, in the navy to loaaea. The London war office, how-
upper Sereth river, have fallen into [ against the f urka but retreated after [ mander-ln-chlef of the Atlantic fleet, handle it.’ . ever, dispute* thin statement, assert
the bands ef the Rnsslansr All along two hours’ fighting. Further ad-, nnd who wns the vice ndmlral In “Cnptnin Plnnkett. tn spenking of ing that
this front evep in the Carpathian re- vancea for the Turks against tbe command of the battleship nqnaBroa the practice of tbe turret guns. mid. pursuit of the Turkish rearguard Italian theatre,
glon * Petrograd renorta that tha Russians on the Persian front and tn when Admiral Fletcher wan eom- The records of the fall of ISIS iadl- which Satnrday evening had baea fur ther Cat eata AMea tn all
Russian# arc contlartag their bd-, Turkish ArmeaU also are claimed by, maeder tn-<htef. In m. official letter eats that we are adraadag by leaps drives back U> a peMtlon of »tr*-al- gleam marked the
Fighting Hard la F
Hard flgbt'ag la the
rh-
the British cavalry In etlli In gioa of France, la Oaiida and bn the
with fnrtWr galas
vaace against the AU-tro-Gernsana. * Constantinople
data of Jaiy 9, 1911, referring and
arday night