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^^^^^^ -^ " i " " *? . **V?'""N^^ i ^/ / "~ . . ' '- ? - - j 1 - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 170 Weekly, Established 1860; Dally, Jaa.lt, iflC ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 191. PRICE FIVE CENTS $6.00 PER ANNUM BELGIANS MADE GALLANT AND DROVE BACK KAI! Day's News at a Glance French Fleet Captured Three German War Vessels One of Which Was a Battleship of the First Class-President Wilson Offers His Ser vices as a Peacemaker-Russians Ad vance Into Germany ' Germany is pushing her advance through Belgium and has met with strong opposition around Liege, where Belgian forces, according to official advices reaching Brussels, have repulsed the German army of the Meuse under General Von Emmich. The Germans are reported to have lost several thousand killed and wounded. Field Marshal Kitchener has been appointed Seer tea ry of State for war in the British cabinet and will have under his direction the military campaign against Germany. / . > French troops joined the Belgians in opposing the progress of Germany through JBelgium, and it is reported that possibly Great Britain maysend reinforcement. The president.of the United States has proffered his services as mediator to the European nations at war. . * The German ambasasdor will leave England Thursday by dis patch boat. Both at St; Petersburg arid Berlin, the German and Russian" er^ Th? ed, ami th? British! causer Arhphip?i:,has sunk the Hamburg-American line steamer Koehigin Louise, recently converted into a mine layer. Russian frontier patrols have penetrated ten miles into Germany. Trawleys returning from the North Sea bring word that rio hos-1 tile .warships werfe to be seen. (By Associated Press.) yet, and the Austrian ambassador has London Aug.* G.-T?;r> first day of the received no Instructions to leave Lon war for Great Britain bas been ? day don. i of suspense and rumors. Eovcry half Every Important nowspaper in Eng hour a fresh "extra" was shouted, in land has announced its whole hearted .the streets with some startling news, support of the government. Even the The sum total pf tho rumors was Irish press has joined in tho concord, that cannonading1 balbeen started lite Prince of Wales ls about to is land heard off the coasts of Europe sue an appeal for \ funds to raise a The nation's mind and heart are with relief fund for the distressed. The the fleet; also lt is proud ot its con- committee composed of members of fidence, and every ono awaits a bul-' tho house of commons ha? brnsfc-form letin of a great b?tile. BUt concern- ed for the purpose. It includes ; the lng tho navy'B whereabouts, plans or Hight Bon. H. L. Samuel. John strategy, the newspapers do not .even Burns, Augustin Dir rel and Walter speculate.. Long. The first fruits , of .tho war are that several German: vessels brought into GE HM AN S ARE ROUTED < .harbor by the ''British cruisers and -j others im ponded in port. This was Attack on Liege Results In Heavy the day's only news so far as British . Lo?n to Kaiser's Forces, naval cod military operations were Brussels, Aug... 4--(via Paris, 1:38 concerned. The . Voto of ?500,000,000 a .)-several thousand dead and for war purposes and tho appointment wounded, ls tho toll paid by the Ger of Field Marshal kitchener ns s??re- man army of the Meuse attack on tary of'War were' -"two government Liege.. measures of great importance, Tho Belgians made a heroic de The German embassy has. boon tense.: repulsing the Germans after a granted a special train acd cruiser to heavy and continuous fight. take tho stair to o Holland port The fortified position ot-Liege .had A notice on the door "American cm- to support rs Wednesday tho general bassy" was posted; this ''afternoon, shock of tho German attack. Ttvj whon tho American Secretary, Irwin Belgian forts restated the advance B. Laughlin, temporarily assumed mont fiercely and did not Suffer. Cae charge o? tho pramtseo. Bol gian squadron attacked and drove Neither Great Britain nor AuEtria, hack nix German equadrons, has declared . Wark on the.ofoaraa_;-._ .^^(Gontlnaed on Page Seven,7 Tourists Destitute; y Desperate Straits (By Associated Press.); ; , Paris/ August 5.-^-Judfie; Elbert H. Gary, Ambassador Herrick and mem bers bf. tba. American committtce formed to ?aid their countrymen, ar ranged today'.to have several million francs avaJiablsT^r cashing checks and letters o? drsdit of Americans. The Americans^ here who h?ve? visible means consequently will. not. lack ready money;, pbndu*. the arrival of ?tho" United St'aW. cruiser Tennessee. ' Within ten- days br > so, when the mobilisation'ot tho French army has oben combed, a, regular through : limited train service will be restored. Members of the American em's??; made nb arrangement With the French military authprWsi isto last night to allow fifty homeless Germans gathered outside the smbafley .hnrtfljng to sleep In a publlfc 'school bul|d|?g nearby. There was a distressing, gathering of lndlgnant\Germani, tuany ?f. Jh?m women and children and some with ' babies ir their arms'at the embassy , today getting their certificates of Iden. tlocation signed by the ambassador preparatory ,to .being dratted to the wfcstsrn frontier. Assistance waa given po day by tho American Church to a number of des titute Americans: Judge Gary said he supposed there wore more than 40,000 Americans in Europe desirous bf re turning to America and '7.300' in Paris of whom perhaps 1,600 were in des perate, straits. He said ho thought the committee would be able to. cope with tho majority of cases, provided aid ,Jwera;r?oeived> from the State de partment^ A large number of tourists from Switzerland, among them many Amer icans and ' delegates to the church peace union, whose proposed conf?re, voce , at Constance waa foacidoned< have arrived lp Paris with' tales ot their experiences. They wore met po litely, but at the point of. the bayonet, at the French frontier and asked ahowt their credentials. At they were put into' freight for transportation of troop howes had litt Iq to eat oi drink. AT THE DOCKS (By Associated ProBB.) New York. Aug. 5-The Lusitania was in taint touch with thc shore nt 6 o'clock tonight. She was sending code messages, presumably to thc British cruisers whicb are expected to convoy her. To the list ot steamship lines that had cancelled their sailing from New York, four weeks were added today. They were the French line, with tho exception of the Lorraine the Fabrl line, except the Santa Anna, which will sail from her Brooklyn pier Sat urday auernoon, with the French re servists, in place of the Rochambeau; the Uranium line, flying- the British flag and controlled by the Canadian Northern Railway company; and the Lamport and Holt line, operating to Brasil and Argentine ports. - The Lamport and Holt liners, im portant vessels to. the coffee trade, will be tido up in thc ports they are in. ' Thc Highland Harris was to have sailed from New York today and tho T?unison last Saturday. The Van Dyck is in New,.York also. Other ves sels of .this line are enrouto toward South American ports. The White Star liner Olympic and. tho Hamburg-American vessel Prinz Eitel Friedrich slipped In before dawn and werp shrouded all except' their running lights. The F.reidrlch came h trow.-Colon aqd ^h?"8*61' .possible, kopi, Within!tho American" 3-mlle neu trality territory. The steamer Kioto, arriving to night .from Oran, Algiers, was one bf those with news of the wireless ex change cr warships' messages. The operator of the Caracas which came in tonight from South American ports, also caught such messages. Nothing was known publicly here tonight-of the whereabouts ot tho North Gorman Lloyd liner KronprInn Wilhelm, which left port suddenly on Monday night, heavily coaled and without passengers.. The '. cruiser Tennessee, which the government will send to the relief of Americans abroad, tonight dropped anchor, in the harbor. There sho will remain until tomorrow, when s'.>o will sall.with $7,500,000 in gold, Including $2500,000 from government vaults. GERMAN EMBASSY IS DESTROYED Infuriated Russians Destroy Ute German Embassy At St Petersburg .(By Associated Press) St Pty*rsburg, Aug. 5.-The Ger man em?ir?ssy here was. wrecked and a bonfire made, of the furniture and pictures by an angry crowd here to day., . The people were angered by the reports ot what they deemed to bo in dignity Bhown to tho Dowager Em press Marla .Feodorbwna by being stopped in Berlin on her arrival frevn Londorf on her way to St Petersburg and compelled by tho German authori ties to. goto Copir?hagen. ? An entrance was forced by the tm mehii tv^Wd 'through the windows, jrfost- of che i com* were wrecked and the'furniture piloted into the street. A humber, bf jtuo>nts and working men climbed tb the roof of the embas sy here and tore the fold eagle from the t?p^f the flagstaff; " They then ran up the Russian flag. ' A' massive statuary, depicting a group of horsep led by men wan hack ed to pieces With axes and tho cibris hurled into the oonah A bonfire sraa then m ado of the contents of thc em bassy' and an attempt. was, made tb put a torch' to the building, but the mounted police routed the rioters. Another, crbwd later tried < to repeat the performance nt the Austrian em bassy but that building , was too strongly guarded, The body of a Russian ? footman lr. alleged > by the authorities . to have bfc?u foUhd In the Gorman embassy. The matt had been shot in tho head and stabbed and had been dead for abm^tfayaVr. I ?^..tfisMT* BULLETIN Russia's Czar and England's King, And Types of Their Fighting Men ENGLAND sad Bcs35a, as numbers o? tue triple entente, st?rt? shoulder to shoulder, aided hy tho third member, France, In the European war cruds follow!n?\the declaration ot war by Austria upon Servio. Eng land, with Ita mighty navy, the greatest tn the world, and Busala, with Its great prmy. the; isrgest bi the world, mode a formidable'alliance, tn this picture ors shown the czar (loft) and his famous Cossack* (above) and King George and a type of his bicycle light artillery. MRS. WILSON IS IN EXTREMIS B'. --.-. . 1-: LITTLE HOPE FOR RECOVERY IS ENTERTAINED BY PHYSICIANS ' A LONG ILLNESS Growing Wt ?ker Hourly Noble Woman's Condition Is Critical At Lost Report . o o 00 ooo 0.0 ooo 00000 o o o o o o o o o o o 'JULLETIN WashmgSon, 'Afc. ?V At 3 a. m. no change had been reported in Mrs. Wil son's condition. A abort time before that hour she wa* said to be resting quietly. .> o 00000000 0000 o 00 (By Associ?t' -1 Pf?ss.) Washington, August 5.-Mrs. Wood row. Wilson, wife of the: president of the United States, tonight Hes at the point of death. Four months of almost unbroken r.lness, a complication 'ot nervous ail ments and Bright's disease, have sap ped thc . vitnllty of the first lady of the land. The end ls* regarded as Q mat ter of days, perhaps honr?. Tier hus band and three daughters , are at her o 00 00 o 00 ooo a Shot Wife, H*> > Self. Chicago. Aug. .^Thor' Vnld Nielson, a manager bf Ot?, ?cn. Ish Old Peoples' Home here to n?aW'rt^ifnnd killed his Wife, matron of the hom ; and the 11 mfatdd they had ween the murder and uulr ide bot un t e e. bled br'tvs were unable to pre vent either. ?r. and Mrs. Nielson quarrel, ed fr*?uenlly orer tho suatts^c hi^ut of the home. 00 o ooo o 00 00 o bedside and rolativos have boon sum moned. Physicians have been In con sultation . for days but lt. was admlttea at the white house tonight that hopo for her-recovery-had almosc vanished. Conscious only at . intervals. Mrs. Wilson has been cheerful sud has rail ed constantly for her husband. Every moment that could be spared from ur gent official ' duties have boen devoted \ by the president to his wife. At thu side of his constant helpmate abd ad visor, he wrote the tender nf good of fices, apepaling to the European mon arche to stay their conllict, From the nick room he lias been giv ing directions to tb? various depart ment heads for thc t relief of thous ands of Americans stranded abroad The press ot domestic legislation, thu European war and Mexican situation, > and the flurry o ver - financial condi i/ons throughout the." country havo I-weighed heavily on the preside ?it as he has maintained his dav and night vigil. There Has Been Ko Hope. For several days lr hus been known to those in cln&oat touch at th > white house that- Mrs. Wi lr on was gravely ill and that hope for her revovery waa slight. . Tho . plres'dtnt himself nae clung desperate!' fa ttie, nope ti?st she might, survive .?ho crisis, but her tja!* constitution, drained by. months of nerve.rending illnosa, hos been unable to withstand tha battle. Ono day last .March Mrs. Wilson slipped on a rug ut the white house, injuring lier spine. An operation was necessary. After weeks1 of convales cence, she finally arose from her bed, but the burden of a a Inter's activity at the white honre, together with charity work in the slumgpf the city, brought on nervous prostration. .She was wei? enough to attend the.wedding of her second daughter, now Mrs. William G. McAdoo, hut'her recuperative, powers were not' lasting'. Stomach trouble added to her nervous ailment and Bright's .dlseaso developed. Three, weeks-ago ?he seemed ito . ral ly and was well enough to walk.-sup ported by a nurse, in thc white house grounds. She: watched with satisfac tion a* gardeners laid out tho Inst of the lud?an gardens which she bad plannett Ipr the south front of the ex ecutive maturion. A nmrb'e statue ot a boy playing a fl?te was placed st her direction In the gardens near the executive offices. With hortaeto for the artistic, developed In many years of landscape paint i Dg, she practican? had rearranged the gardenia got th* (Continued on Page Seven.) . . . . . ' -A.- h . ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE FIRING LINE "V ______________ E. O. S. BULLETINS Wireless and Cable Reports Covering Every Detail of the European War 1. ""'""V (By Associated Presa.) '.,?>.' Heavy Fighting. Paris, August 5.-Official advices say that Germany declared war against Belgium yesterday and that German forces moved on Bel gium from the territory between Aixla Chapel and Rheidt. There has been fighting around Liefe and Vise. The latter town has been burned. Civilians caught by the Germans firing upon them were executed. Several dirigibles have been hovering over Brussels, and the residents of the Belgian capital, in a state of exasp?ration are attack ing the Germans in the city. Heavy Fighting In Progress. ~T Amsterdam, August 5.-Via London.-A dispatch to.the Han del sblad from Maestricht says: i.' "Sharp fighting on the Belgian frontier continues. The sound of heavy guns is distinctly heard. The smoke of battle is visible from the church steeples. : "A number of aeroplanes and a dirigible balloon flew over ^bes tricht this morning. '.',*?? tfWfl?BSj. .'German horses, which evidently stampeded/ galloped into the town during the night and were captrued." <'~ ' \ Germana Repulsed. ' , ? T Brussels August 5.--Via'L^'ndon.^fhe German. ?g?c?s;?f?5? ported to have been checked by the line of forts in th?!?province;bf Liege. -. ' -'' . ? .' The German troops attempted to cross the river Meuse on a pontoon bridge but a sharpe broadside by the batteries of the forts destroyed the bridge as soon as it was completed. Later the invaders succeeded in crossing the river near Maes tricht. mm Belgians Are Victorious. Brussels, August 5.-The Belgian war office announced'tonight that fierce fighting had occurred in the environs of Liege and that, so far as the Belgians were concerned, the situation is exceller?t. "The Germans," the announcement says, "were driven back by an heroic attack made by a Belgian mixed brigade, which' already had earned for itself the highest honors. No German who passed the fort survived." / Prussians Are Routed. ' 4 Brussels, August 5.-Via London-Le Peuple ^asserts that in the fighting between Germans and Belgians near Vise a platoon of Prus sian cavalry was almost annihilated / the Fire of the Belgians from a building On the bank of the river. The Prussians in revenge, the newspaper says, fired on civilian at Flemalle. Near Argenteau, a Belgian force surprised a body of Prussians and killed seventy out of ten officers and eighty men. The Belgian losses were two officers killed and ten men wounded. Canada Buying Sumarme*. Seattle, Wash., August 5.-Two powerful submarine vessels (Continued on Page Seven.) ,. ; ' ; Thirty Eight Killed In Rail Road Wreck (By Associated Press.) Joplin, vMo., Aug. 5".-Thlrty-elgbt persons were ' killed and 25 injured tn a collision between ' northbound passenger train No. 2 on the Kansas City Southern Railway- arid a Mis souri and North Arkansa8 Railway gasoline motor car, running oh the Kansas City Southern' tracks near Tipton Ford 10 miles south of here. According to the'reports received here, both the motor car and the train were running at a high rate of speed when they met at Tipton Ford, a small siding. With tho collisions came the explosions of the' gasoline car, set ting both the motor esr and the train .fire. Every person in the motor .car. was killed ,it is said. The motor car was ? shoved back three hundred yards by. the train and was left -suspended over, the locomo tive, '-' ' .-, ' . .. ? None of the passengers on the train were killed although tho engineer and firemen were injured. Because ot the rapid spread ot the flames the exact number of the dead was not known hours after the acci dent. Some reports say lt will roach 60. The motor crew is said to have had orders , to pass the northbound pas senger train at Tipton Ford. Tba train crew bad similar ordera. In stead ot walting for tho train to pass, however, the motor ear ts said to have proceeded south, and upon reaching a curve a mile beyond, tho col Us toa occured. HOADS DECLAIMS EMB ARO J ! No Shipments to Saropeaa Ports W?U Be Accepted. (By Associated Passe.} New Orleans, Aug. 5.-An embargo on the shipment of gra'.n for ??Mri; to Europe from New On'eans waa to day declared by the. Illinois Cent.r?i Raliway. The embargo may be ex tended to tnclued all freight for ohtp tnent to Europe,. officers .ot the? road1 declared. A similar embargo * had i previously been declared by Otb Tex as and Pacific Railroad.- , ..;