The Anderson daily intelligencer. (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, October 13, 1914, Image 1
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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 212 Weaklr, ErtaUIikei 1M0| DmDy, Jaa.lt, Itu, ANDERSON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS 85.00 PER ANNUM
NO MARKED CHANGE
IN THE SITUATION
FAVORING EITHER SIDE
BRITISH AND BFXGIAN TROOPS WHO RETIRED FROM ANT
WERP HAVE BEEN SWALLOWED UP AS COM
PLETELY AS IF THEY HAD BEEN BURIED
UNDER RUINS OF FORT
FOR MILITARY REASONS THEIR
POSITIONS MUST REMAIN OBSCURE
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Allies Claim to Have Driven Germans From Aire and Germans Have
Made Substantial Progress West From Armentierts-Al
lies Hold Ground Claimed to Have Regained, But
Germans Are Throwing Men Westward
and Putting up Hard Fight.
London, Oot. 12.-The finger of the. will soon reach the post If the op
censor having twisted the tornlquet on posing sides continue throwing < ul
all sources of ncwB from Belgium, just cavalry In an endeavor to outtta-lk or
now perhaps the most potentially lm- break through
portant scene of the fighting, the Jio Claim to Victory,
nntish people were forced to content The Allies make no claim to victory
themselves today with the official In the afternoon statement which
communication from Paris and even a opens with the remark that these cav
close analysis of this showed no roark- airy operations continue as far north
ed change in thc situation favoring and wost as Hazebrouck, a point hard
elther side; ? ly more than a day's walk from Calais.
Hopelessly Outclassed. Putting Pp Hard Fight.
From tho east came tidings of a dc- When the Allies daisied yesterday
cided reversal In form, thc dispatches they had driven the Germans from
both from Vienna and PctrrHraa' ina? Aire, London learned for the first
eating that he Austrian army at Prae- time that the Germans had made sub
rosyl BO often reported surrounded, stantial progress west from Armen
hopelessly outclassed and on * Ibo t lores which they reached last week,
verge of eur-ender, had turned on the Presumably tho Allies still hold the '
Russians with tho aid of reinforce- ground they claim to have regained,
mente, and forced thom to retreat. but the Germans aro throwing more
Abandon Siege of Prrenisyl. men westward and aro putting up a
The frost news of this claim came hard fight. Tho communication does
during the morning from the Austrian not make plain which side holds the
capital/ *Tt wds followed later by .what ' towri nearest the coast. '
purports to be a Petrograd admission German Attucks Repulsed,
that tho Russians had abondoned thc 1 Nowhere along the battle line do
siege of Prscmysl fer Eirstsglcal rcs- thc Allies say they have made any
Vms, willi tho ohject of drawing up a progress except In the center, on the
new lino against tho Austrtz-Germun rjBht bank of thc Alsne below Sols
army in toehr points In Galicia. i ROns. At two other points, notably be
Clalm Series of Victories. tween Arras and the Oise, and on the
Whatever may the the truth of the right in VosgeB, lt ls said the German
uatlon, the Fjusslans have been claim- 1 attacks have been repulsed- A, para- j
lng an unbroken series of victories in I graph in tho official communication I
their Bweep through Galicia and tho saying lt. ts understood the Germans
coincidence of today's dispatches, sup- are occupying only the suburbs of
plcmented as they were by mora cir-1 Antwerp, while the twenty-four forts j
cumstantial accounts from Vienna and' along the Scheldt (Escaut) still arel
a vigorous Austro-Gorman offensive,] holding out, has beon received In .Lon-j
Bcemed to presage imoprtant news, j don with considerable surprise and
Positions Must Remain Obscure. I skepticism, in view of thc announce
The British and Belgian ?ro?p3 who I mont of tho Brithth war office that the
retired from Antwerp before the Ger- city was occupied by tho Germans and
man occupation with the exception ot the Berlin official statement that the
those now Interned on Outct noil HS invaders took virtually ct mpleto pos
it result of having had to cross tho session of tho city,
border, have, boen swallowed up as Prepared for' Visitors,
completely as lt they had boen turiod Probably Btlrrod by the borrih drqp
under the ruined forts. For military ping exploits of German air craft over
reasons their positions and the area of Pan's*, landon soerits to be v. epa rod
hostilities in Belgium must remain ob- for such vlslltors, and official notice
. sem e until the turn of events bring has been sorved on persona living near
them sharply to the fore again, aa was the mouth of the Tannins that they
the case when, after the fall of Ant- should bo ready to Beek their callers
werp, the British public learned io? at tho first sound of firing as there
tho first time that tho Britta!? forces will be no time to spread the news in
had assisted tho garrison- any more formal way
British Press Optimistic. Recruiting Increasing.
Optimistic, es ulways, the British Recruiting through Great Britain,
press besides contending that' Ant- particularly in London, has been in
worp ts of no importance lo i?arroany creasing, lt in said, since the fall of
as a naval baso, finds solace in tho Antwerp, tho talk of the Gormans' ad
argument that the release cf tho citied vanclng from there to Ostend having
troops there' more .than ct uterbal- seemingly brought the war close home
anced the troops which G G c n .n y will rn the minda of the people.
' send , from that point into France. The whereabouts ot. the Belgian,
.The official co--3m<iiiieaijo:i from queen ls still a matter of conjecture
Paris indicated that tho loft wing ls and the same vagueness surrounds the
stretching further west and north >-nd king's reported wounds. ? _
A umr*vmws~* a ?wv
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HEARTY WELCOME ON RUSSIAN SOIL.
. Petrograd, via London, Oct- 12.
1:65 p. m.-The American Red Cross
detachment, reinforced by 36 members
of the Russie? manttary 'corps, will
proceed io Kiev Tuesday to assume
charge of a hospital containing two
hundred beds. This number later will
be increased io seven hundred. Thc
Amoileann pronounce, the Fosalan
equipment and technique high class.
The Russian Red Cross ls adding to
the Americans fifo car loads of sup
plies, beds, linen, and drugs.
Thw Americans have been given a
warm welcome and have been escort
ed to the emperor's walting room,
where they were welcomed by Count]
Bobrnsky. chief of the Russian Red
Cross, as the only foreign Red Ci-oss]
Corps sent to Russia*
Kassian officials attach importance,
to tho. American expedition as likel;
te add to tho cordial relations be- [
tween the two countries. The Amer-i
lean surgeons probably will be equi?
ped, with Russian uniforms so ?anti
'they can escape being made the tar-j
gets of unthinking soldiers. ?
15,000 AUSTRIANS KILLED DURING
GREATEST BTTLE SINCE WAR BEGAN;
London, Oct 12.-A Renter dispatch
from Cettinge says that, on October
? the Montenegrins engaged the Aus
trians in the greatest bat tte since thc
beginning of the-war near Kaleno
vltcfc, tn Bosnia.
The Austrians; 20.000 strong, tried
to cut off the Montenegrin anny op
erating toward Sarajevo, The Monte.
negvlna surprised their foes as in jy
were marching in column formation!
and in the first day of fighting in-'
flicted a loss of 15,000 men
The Austrians, says the correspond-I
eat, seeing the ImposBobllity of ad-J
vanclng toward Sarajevo, fell back
Kaleno vit ch leaving SOO more Ul'
and wounded. The Mont?n?grins
a largo number ot ry4 s cn era ?md
taroo ? large quantity of stores
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cf THE DAY'S NEWS. o
o - o
o Tho occupation of Anatwcrp by o
o the Germans has been followed, o
o according to the latest reports-, by o
o the occupation of Ghent, which o
o would, seem to confirm the Ger- o
o man plan,' as it already has been oj
o outlined, of e. movement towards ,o
o the coast, with Ostend as its ob- o
o Jcctlve. o
o It is pointed out by british u
o military experts that it is Ger- o
o many's intention to make a per- o
o m?nent stronghold of Antwerp, in o
o order to hold Belgium in her grip o
o and In this way gain a position o
o within e?sy reach of the English o
o coast. ? *
o " The fighting along the great o
o llhe, extending almost from the o
o North Sea to tho German province o
o of Lorraine, continues ?rlth in? o
o definite results, for the actual op- o
o eratlons in the northern section of o
o Fi-ance are now divulged to any o
o extent in the official statements o j
o iseued by the French war depart- o
o ment. Where the British rein- o j
o forcements have been sent is a o ?
o matter of conjecture, but lt is be- o
o lieved a considerable force al- o
o ready is in the neighborhood of o
o tend. o
o German submarines have come o
o into prominence by thc sinking of o
o the Russian 'armored cruised Pal- o
o leda in tho Baltic Sc i. The Pal- o
o lada, with the Admiral Makarov, o'
o and the Hayan, havo been engaged o
t in patrolling the Baltic. The o
o German submarines made un at- o
o tempt against thc Admiral Maka- o
o rov on October 10, without sue- o
o cess, but on the following day o
o one of them succeded in torpedo- o
o lng the Pallada which sank almost o
o Immediately, according to the o
o Russian official report, with all o
o he:1 crew, consisting of nearly 600 o j
o officers and men. o
o Recruiting in England is again o
o actively nroeeeding for tho need o
o of men is recognized and tbs ro? o
o qulrements for service in the in- o
o fantry have been lowered to in- 0/|
o sure" a large supply of recruits- o
o Similarly Great Britain is taking o
o precautions against :*aids over o
o English towns by German air- o
o ships, this action nrobahly result- o
o lng from the recant attacks on o
o Paris by aeroplanes. n
o Borlln officially reports' the ?lt- o
b usti?n in France inwatrsfact?ryao o
o far aa her a: my la concerned- o
o Other official reports indicate the o
e German and Austrian armies have o
o made impressive progresa in the o
o Russian campaign, russia is rc- o
o ported to have abandoned thc o
o siege of Przcmysl, the important o
o Austrian fortress in Galicia, and o
o is lining up to meet a threatened o
o attack by tho Austro-Germ?n o
o army. o
o Marquis DI San Guilano, the o
o Italian minister for foreign af- o
o fairs, is reported to be dying, o
o Should' his death occur it is pos- o
o Elble it may have an Important o <
o effect on the attitude of Italy. o ?
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The Weather. .
SOUTH CAFOLINA-Fair Tuesday; ?
Wednesday partly cloudy.
Did Pelzt
Execu
RUMORS SAY THAT BLACK |
WAS PUT TO DEATH.
FOR USUAL CRIME
Following Attempt at Friendship
Crime, Report Says That Ne- "j
gro Was Handled by Mob. '
. -
Reports coming to Andereon yester
day from Pclzer were to the effect
that a negro named Will Freeman waa
either killed Or roughly handled by a
med last Sunday night. The general
opinion is that the white people put!
the negro to death, al e nough another
report merely says that the men turn
ed themselves into* surgeons for a time
and wreaked their vengeance in that
manner. However. Freeman has not,
been seen since Sunday night and thia,
in%connection with tho fact that many
shots weer fired atv him as he fled
across a field, Indicates that he was
shot down and killed
As the '2-year-old daughter ot al
white tenant living on the farm of C.1
j. HollWay, about one and one-half
mlle from Pelzer, was coming lome
from school last Tuesday afternoon
she walked around the barn go'ng to
ward the house and passed Will Free
man, who was engaged in saluting
wood. She had taken only a few step?
when she was seized Troie behind and
I a negro placed his- hand across h.vr
month while he asked her name, 8ho
?told him and Just at that Instant che
d a buggy coming. She screamed
the negro made a get-away
Jtrougb th? trees.
The little girl's father and mother
rare both in tho North Carolina moon
CATHEDRAL OF I
Tho interior of the cathedral at Mc
occupied that cit?.
UNAIMITY ?F FE]
AGAINST F?RT
Hopeful Reports Received From M
Determine personnel of Future
Hey Makes Speech Urging
Calling ou Carranza t<
as Viiia Has
Washington. Oct. 12.-Hopeful re
ports reached Waohlngton today from
tho military convention being held
at Actias Calientes to determino the
pcionnel of the future government of
Mexico. Not only a:*e Generals Car
ranza and Villa represented, but Gen
eral Zapata hus sent three delegates
j whose chredcutials have been accept
ed.
The basis of representation agreed
i upon was that each dclegato must
prove that he hud command of at
least 1,000 men in. the army or must
have been identifeid as a general or
ir Mob
te Negro
tains and did not return home until
Saturday night, at which time sho told 1
ber father of what had happened. She
gave>a good* description of her assail
ant and within a few hours Sheriff
Ashley and his deputies, together with
the Pelzer police, were on Freeman's
trail. Tte was caught about midnight 1
and carried to the Holl blay farm,
where he was taken before the girl.
She stated most emphatically that 1
Freeman was not the negro and ac
cordingly he was. released by Ute of fl
eur?. However) Pi'rser people discov
ered Sunday that Will Freeman had
worji a beard before this affair hap
pened and the girl described the ne
gro as having a heard, but on Wed
nesday Freeman went to Greenville to
,the circus and bad his beard removed- ?
This altered his appearance consider
ably and after thinking over this ;
phase of thc situation a posse or mob
of some 200 men formed and went to :
the Holliday plantation. ,The Polxer ,
policeman. Officer Williams, got wind ,
of; their approaclryind told the negro to ?
run for his life, but just as the. negro i
rushed from the door and started i
lacrosa the field the mob caught al ?TI I
of him and about 10 shots weer fired <
at him in quick succession. The mob <
then pursued him and what later too1 .
.dace has not yet been solved and It
is drtubtrhl whether c* not it ever will
be. The two stories go that the negro
wac shot and that Ms body wa? Uten <
carried to the river and throvn in, i
while Gie other says that he was <
forced to undergo an operation. So <
I far no one baa aeon Freeman since tile :
mad ran he made across the field. i
j Freeman bore a bad reputation
around Pelzer anu lt Ia said that he ;
had Just completed a sentence on the I
chain gang for larceny and secured j
his freedom only a few, days ago
i -A?;
MONS IN RUINS
.na after the Germans bad shelled and
ELING EXISTS
HER BLOODSHED
lilitary Convention Being Held to
t Adoption of Resolution
> Release Prisoners,
Done.
governor with the constitutlonalls!
movement before Zacatecas was cap
tured Loni the ll mri., government.
It was this point on which General
Villa had noon insisting from tho be
ginning.
General Iiuardo Hay, one of tho men
who opposed the acceptance of Car
ranza'a resignation al the Mexico City
convention, made an Impassioned
speech, urgiug the adoption of a reso
lution calling on General Carranza to
release all political prisoners, as Gen
eral Villa had done. He was applaud,
ed as ho suggested that tho language
r,f - ..i?.(i.... jw. .-i-.........i fro*n a
"request" to an "order."
Tho convention passed the resolu
tion in that 'form.
Official reporto further atato that
Lhe prevailing spirit of the meeting ls
one of harmony and a unanimity bf
reeling exists against further blood
shed
The Constitutionalist agency bern
received the follow.'rg telegram from
Mexico City today:
"General JeBus Carranza, at the
head of the second division of the
center and at the head of an army of
more than 30,000 men, with sixty can
non and seventy machine guns has ar
rived at the capital, having come from
the Isthmo?? nf *T,oha""*where be
superintended th's mastering out
the Federal troups located In that re
gten, and took over the garrisons of
Uuawmns and Mazatlan."
RUSSIANS PURSUED BY
. AUSTRO-GERMAN TROOPS
.Wnny Towns Which Were in ?'a=ds of
Russians >ov Tjaoer Austrian
Administration.
London. Oct 12.-A dispatch to
The Reuter Telegram Company from
Amsterdam toy J that a telegram re
ceived from Vienna states that tho
Russians In Galicia and North of the
Vistula are pursued by Austro-German
troops. Many towns which a few days
Gigo were In the hands of tho Russians
are now again under an Austrian ad
ministration. The message adds that
the Russians did. not behave so badly
sa the authorities had expect.al. Even
the Cossacks conducted themselves
humanely.
"Bny-a-Bale-of-Couen.*"
Kansas City, Mb., Oct- 12.-Ciiarlea
D. Jones, Nashville, Tenn., president
or the Grain Dealers' National Asso
ciation, in annual convention here to
lay, urged every farmer and every
[lealer In grain producing States to
loin tho "bcyr-a-bale-of-motton" move
ment
Joining the "buy-a-bale-of-cotton"
movement does not mean giving away
KO, but rather Investing that sum with
sn Opportunity to make good interest
on the investment," he said.
WILL MAKE ONE MORE
EFFORT TO GET RELIEF
FOR COTTON GROWERS
SOUTHERN SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES WILL AGAIN
ATTEMPT TO GET LEGISLATIVE RELIEF FROM CON
CRESS FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS FAC
ING SOUTHERN FARMERS BECAUSE
OF EUROPEAN WAR
WANT AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON
A PROPOSAL TO AID CONSTITUENTS
Met at Home of Senator Hoke Smith, of Giorgia, Last Night and Dis
cussed the Issuing ol $125,000,000 sa Government Bond?
For the Purchase of Five Millions of Balea to Be Held
By Government Until Jan. 1, 1916.
Washington, Oct. 12.-Sonntora and inn nt and then vote.
Representatives from cotton growing ' McAdoo Should Join*
States determined today to make one Mr. Henry's reply to Secretary Mo?
more supreme effort to get. tho legis- Adoo which ho ineffectually sought to
lativc relief from Congress before ad- have the House print in the Congres
Journment for tho threatening condi- sianal Record, says there is no chance
tiona facing the cotton growers be- for tho government to lose a pe*rny
cause of thc European war. on cotton and tobacco. "You should
Democratic Senators from Southern I01" u,s a?d h?-P to get leglatetion' to
SUtes blocked an agreement to vote 80,1 Uie, -'ananxa canal bonds and is
on the war tax hill Thursday when ?"c lm ted States notes, he wrote,
they determined to attempt to add an .Restrain the banks, hold them In
amendment to tho measure calculated 'Mh *** prevent their further In
to aid tho cotton growers. The amend- nation of the currency which ia not
mont probably will be submitted to- reaching the farmers this year,
morrow aud will afford an opportun- At the conference tonight of South
ity for a voto on tho issue. Southern ern Sonators the general outline of
Senators, it was learned tonight, dd tl,o amendment to U.u war tax bill
not propose to filibuster on tho ro- which will bo offered in the Senat?
vonue bill but they do want an oppor- was agreed upon, but the details will
tunlty to voto on a proposal for re- be worked out tomorrow and the
lief of their constituents, whether it amendment probably presented Wed
should carry or not. nesday. Tho proposa) contemplates
-mW?usK no.nl ?HSue. * . ?n l??o of three year; foiir uer cent' T
Tonight Southern Senators mot at ?x,nd,Lby, ?ovothtaeat to create a
tho homo of Senator Hoke Smith, of oan fnnd foT c?tton *rowerB;
Georgia. Among proposal discuased !?KftB M security would be held until
were the following: 1916. 'A tax of one cent a pound
Curtailment of appropriations xor would b* lavied en tho ?3?3 cv?g, the
tho coming fiscal year to the amount proceeds of tho tax to be used in re
or $100,000,000 and utilizaUon of this tiring bonds thea outstanding
amount to help carry tho cotton crop -.
and to nial;e advances upon cotton. |*f^J HOUSE FOR
Salo of undisposed Panama canal "
bonds to be utilized for thc same pur- FIRST READING
pose.
Issue of $225,000.000 of three-year, '
four per cent government bonds, In ?fll Making it a Misdemeanor to
denominations of $10 and up for tho ? , _. ? _ .
purchase of five million bales of cot- , "lani IWore than bAcres ot
ton to be held hy thc govornment un- Cotton t.oAnimaL
til January 1. 1916, __________
The bond issue proposal, it was sug
gested, should be accompanied by an (Special to The Intelligencer.) \
excise tax on cotton producers or $10 Columbia, S. C.. Oct. 1.-Beyond
a halo on all cotton produced next passing . several 'ocal bills to third
vear in excess of five bales per plow, reading the House did nothing during
Will Try to Poree Vole. ita fifty minute session this morning.
In tho House Representative Hen- The select committee from tho
ry of Texas served notice that he House appointed to consider all meas
purposed to try to force a vote to- Wes relating to the curtailment- tot
morrow on tho project of Southern cotton production lu 1916 was in ses
members for an issue of $250,000,000 i sion nearly an hour this morning. Itt
in currency based on cotton and to-1 bm making it a misdemeanor to plant
b-acco warehouse receipts. He intro- more tnan slx acrea of to the
duccd a resolution for a drastic rule to work ttll,mBl ln 1915 WM roporte4 to
tent reply the leUe^oY ?cretas thc ir?U8? for ,,r8t ***** ton,?ht
legislation. Mr. Henry Insisted that ^Ptne elimination ot a cotton crop la
tho socretary had the right to depos- 15,15 WftB introduced In the House.
ii: public moneys in Southern nation- . *
a) banks "in any manner you deem PREDICTS LOAN FUND
'equitable' to thc extent of the funds WILL BB SUBSCRIBED.
In your hands or that may be sup- ._
plied you by congressional action." st. Louis, Oct. 12.-A pi diction that
Bill to Sell Canal Bonds. the one hundred and fifty million dot
Representative Hardwick, of Geor- ]ar cotton loan fund, recently approv
gta, who talked with the President to- ed by the Federal Reserve Board, will
day, introduced a bill proposing the is- be completely subscribed and ready
-nance and sale of all Panama ca- fop use by the end of this week wari
nat bonds heretofore authorised, at niade today by J. N. Sloan, a member
four per cent Instead of two per cent 0f ?ne committee which accompanied
Interest, and for the deposit of the postus J- Wade, author ofYhe plan, to
proceeds in the national banking as- Washington last week.
social ions and State banks in the cot- _
ton and tobscco bolt. Sspreme Court Reconvenes.
?f?^?T??i? ??'l.. Washington. Oct li -^The Supreme
Mr. Henrys rule, which he wants c n reconvened today after a ibu*'
the rules commute, of which he is T-TTTT^ -,r_
chairman, to report favorably, is an mon*hB rece88- M^^_-i
omnibus propose7 for Immediate con- 88 ^? 8acc^*a1?,r to JuBtl(^
stderatlon of tho cotton currency bill, LU5ton. took hi? seat Oh the bench
the Senate bill to license cotton ware- and tho adjourned to pay Ita
houses, a Senate bul to amend tho respects to the President tito call
national banking laws and .House *>t cases for argument wili begin to
bins to amend tho federal reserve morrow when motions also will be re
laws, each bill to have one hour gen- eel v.l. No decisions will be announc- .
eral debate^ thirty minutes for amend- j ed .untn next Monday. ^
AEROPLANE DROPPED BOMBS BETWEEN
TRAINS CROWDED WITH PASSENGERS
Paris, Oct 12.-A German aero
plane at a quarter past 10 this morn
ing dropped bombs between two rail
road trains pulling out of the North
ern Railroad station. The missie did
not explodes and were later found
imbedded two feet in the earth.
- The trains were crowded wi'h pas
sengers.
' It was officially announced later In
tte day that a Taube aeroplane had
flown over Paris this morning and
dropped six bombs. Five French avt*
atora went np to pursue the German;
"ir.nan.
A new squadron of air craft had
been formed to deal with German avi
ators. ?
Another Germ*? bomb wa? dropped*
today at St On en, a suburb of Parta?
but lt siso did hot explode.
This missie fell wi Uti n a ?hort dis
tance of a largo paint factory where
there fa a gasolino tank with a capa*
I city of 80,000 gallons.