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THE ANDERSON DAILY INTELLIGENCER " - _j . i ??'?qag^T " ". - ?. i - 1 -1- '' _- _. . 5_". * i'AfjMfBOAii * ir. TT? tccrtiv z?fwtNmr. JANUARY 26. islR. PRICE FIVE CENTS BUT VERY LITTLE REAL FIGHTING NEW TROOP DISPOSITIONS INDICATE BATTLES WILL BE RAGING AGAIN GERMAN SIEZES STOCKS OF WHEAT I British Steamer Sank With All Hands Off the Irish Coast. (By Aoocitted Pr-.) LONDON, Jan. 26.-(9:86 p. m.)-It j was officially announced ist the admir alty today that the British armored merchant vessel Viknor had been loaf off Ireland with all hands. The ves sel, it was stated, either struck a mine or foundered. The admiralty states says: "She has been missing for some days and must be accepted as lost with sdi her officers and men. The cause of her loss is uncertain, hut as some bodies and wreckage have been washed ashore on the north coast of Ireland, lt ls presumed that during the recent bad weather she either foundered or, being, carried out of her course, struck a mine in seas where the. Germana are known to] haye laid them." LONDON, Jan. 25.-The eleventh I hour stiffening of the Austrian front ' to check the Russian invasion of Hun gary aa the natural sequence efl the occupation of Bukowina, seems for the present to be. the event .of chief military importance. The Russians recognise this and all i cent dispatch es from retrograd have emphasised t t?e '??i?MSRt11*11 offensive tn thfe southea??ern theatre. ' Second in importance, perhaps, are ! the Russian, movements near the Baust \ .West Prussian frontiers ot which ' ?orn}en^Ote*ement todajLVilik' . sance, although insisting that i new advances into German territory are feared. In the western theatre there has been so little change that the British newspapers print the officials com m*S?ics*??n ~''fh a?a?st entente?*, pre ferring to feature Sunday's naval ac tion. The facts concerning thia en gagement are not given in detail and the admiralty up to tonight bad added j nothing to tho original announce ment. tVlth great battles soon to be fought, ont at her front door, Rumania has net yet decided to Join in the con flict, hut ti is patent that the situa- [ tion in the Balkans ia simmering and it ia believed action will come sud denly. The Italian, Greek and Bul garian ministers were among callers at the foreign office today. The Swedish press is showing re newed . irritation against the British j contraband policy and some. Stock-) holm papers suggest reprisals by for-1 bidding the transportation of goods' destined for Great Britain over Swed- j ish railways. One paper says tho county should strengthen her de fenses to command respect fog ber neutrality. Germany baa seised all stocks ot wheat to insure a supply of bread until the next harvest Stocka of wheat will be distributed according tp the necessities ot the varlcVjs com munities. The British armored marchant steamar Viknor baa been sunk with all hands off the Irish coost. The vessie either foundered or struck a mine. A Vienna newspaper declares the Auatro-Hungarian foreign minister has stated he will refuse territorial oncessions to Italy and Rumania, even if auch a refusal should be tho canse of their entering the war oh the aide of the Allies. Berlin credits to Vienna newspap er dispatches the statement that re ported Austro*Hungarian successes In Bukowina have served to lessen Russia's prestige in Rumania, It is stated in Lon?on that owtr.s to reports that Germany is saifdajc all. ioodstuffs for military use, the ftfcert can steamer Wilhelmina, bound from .New York for Germany with food, is likely to be atopped by the Allies un less a posittv.n guarantee ia given that her cargo will not reach the G?rnian army, Amsterdam "reports that thf> 50 year-old Untrained men of ?bo land-j sturm m the province of Branden- ' burg. In which Berlin is V located, have been cited to appear for medi cal es "minali on. XtsVttut Croiser Sc aa ? LONDON, Jan. 2?.-(6:10 a. m.)-A Daily Hail dispatch from Venteo (ttys Trieste - reports that an . Aertrtau cruiser has struck s mino pear th? Brien! inlands ead sank. Tbs Briagl ^tapiftd* is.at tho month of the barbo* ol Fol a.. Austria's big naval base OD New German Naval Gun Krupp? Are Manufacturing a Gun Whose Projectile Weighs a Ton, BERLIN, tna. London, Jan. 25, ll a. m..-Remarkable figures regard ing a new Qeruiun naval gun are given by a German artilery expert writing in the "Artilleristische Mon ate Hefte." In discusing an asser tion by the London Times that the German navy possesses a gun which carrrles three miles further thau. the bast British weapon, the writer admits that the Krupps are manu facturing a gun whose projectile weighs 920 kilograms (about a ton) and which develops murale velocity of 940 metres (about 3.700 feet) a second. ' The expert ?re ck on s from these figures that the gun has 53 per cent more muscle force than the British navy's beat weapon and has a range of about 42 kilometres (atout 26 miles) while the channel at Do ver ls only 333 kilometres (about 22 miles) wide. He says the figures given if correct, will permit the Germans eventually to command the English coast from Calala for a distance ot nine kilometres (about six miles) in land with the new gun. ORGANIZED LABOR HIT BY DECISION Employers Cen Dismiss Employes If They Refuse to Gire Up the Union, . (By AaaocUUd Pre?.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.-The con-, stltutloaal right of employers to rc-';1 quire employes to renounce their un- * ion affiliations as a condition of em- 1 ployment was sustained today by the supreme court in a decision, far? , reaching to organized labor, in which the Kansas soc?lied coercion statute . ( was declared unconstitutional. I ' Associate Justice Day, joining a 1 dissenting opinion with Justice1 Hughes and Holmes, declared he be lieved similar laws io 12 other States ! ' and in Porto Rico fell by the dec**. ' %nier ?ie Kansas B*ctnte it was unlawful for. any individual or cor poration to coerce ' or! Influence any person to enter into an agreement not to joba or remain a member of a ta bor organisation as a condition of ob* *=.isi?rr pr*-*? rc-stituls? employmer* The case today arose from the con viction of T. B. Coppage, a division superintendent of the Prisco Raliway system, for threatening A. R. Hedge, a Bwrctmnan, with dismissal if he did not withdraw from tbe'BwUcBm?n's Union of North . America, 350 Per Cent Dividend Declared (By AseocTBted Ft Ma.) NEWARK ,N. J.. Jan. 25-A spa cial dividend of 350 per cent, totalling 57,000,000, was declared today by di rectors of the Fidelity Trust Com pany.' The dividend was dne primar ily to the sale of approximately 20. 000 shares of stock in the Prudential t Insurance Company of America, j I which, was recently mutualteed. The I directors also voted a bonus of 10 j I per cent, of salari?e to AU employes, i H JW. EDMONDS DEAD Passes Away at City Hospital at Early Boase Tale Horning. ' Mrs. WI H. Edmonds died at the , city hospital this morning at 3:40,: O'Clock. The funeral services will be held at the family residence, .516 Weet Market street, this afternoon at 2:6*0 o'clock, conducted by Dr. John F. Vines, pastor Gt the First BaptiHt church.'of which Mrs. Edwards .was a member. 'f?^ 4^ The remains will be Bhlpped on tho 3:35 train this afternoon to McCor mick und interment will take place in the cemetery there Wednesday morn ing. .-/ . _ The D&eia Will Sail on Receipt of Papers ?(By A?ocU??d Prwa.) GALVESTON. Tex.', Jan. 25.-Tho steamer Dacia, which cleared Friday for Rotterdam via Norfolk with a cargo of 11,000 bo??*. of cotton, will start on the vo> r?*e ?vs quickly as a j "package of imposant pn5=rs," to be OJO record it the vessel's '.?ah*- I fer from. Germa ? to American regis try- aro dethferrs! to the captain, j FrotaiM? of laeepsndeace, 1 WA8K?NJTOK. Jan. 25.-A promise o foompleto independence for the < Pbtltppinoe when **fs Gio judgment of , tho United States the people of the . islands shall be fitted therefor 55 ia contatned in a revision of the" pream ble to tue pending bill to enlarge tty?! self-goveraicer>t of tho Filipino?, I adopted by the sonate Philippines SENATOR ROOT SAYS THEY ARE TRYING TO RUSH SHIP BILL THROUGH BY "BRUTE FORCE AND WEIGHT OF VOTES'* Fears That If Put Into Effect] Would Involve U. S. in Serions Controversies. (By AtaocMtod Pre?*.) WASH INC/! ON. Jan. 25.--rave fear that the pending government ship purchase bill, if carried .Into effect, would involve the United 'States in serious international controversies was expressed in the Senate today by Senator Root, of New York. Address lng himself largely to the legal aspects of- the measure and what the adminis tration plans to do under lt, the sena tor also charged the D?mocrate with attempting tc rush the bill through by "bruto force and weight of. votes," and warned his colleagues against the dan ger of reducing the senate to a mere "registering instead of a legislative body." Senator Roots speech aroused Dem ocrats, who for several days had re rua in ed silent while speakers attacked the bill, and drew sharp replies from Senators Williams, Stone and Sim mons. The administration's purpose, the Kew York aenator asserted, was to buy interned German ships for the proposed government corporation. He attacked the opinion of the solicitor of the state department In thia con nection, and commented caustically op the attitude of Secreary McAdoO,' ? of the treasurg,- declaring he wa-j."filled erith apprehension by the Idea of put tlnf such vast powers into the: hands nf a men who thinks there is no ground for difficulty." Senator Root pointed out that Great Britain, France and Russia bad adopt ed h mle that transfers of ships during' jjspjjisi only could he valid When Jt had been proved that th& t ransf c-r^of such ships was not rowle to evcape the danger of capture cr other conse quenees of war. Senator Williams replied that he be lieved' Great Britain would be glad to see the entire German merchant ma rthe transferred to. American owner ship as? that Gananny would, ia time, be glad to see England'8 shrips in the tame position. Senator Williams charged that the fbUeans bad. banded together to t a vote , on the bill before 4, if possible. Aeked by Senator Simmons if it ?ere true the Republicans bad decid ed upon "filibustering the bill to leath." Senator Galltpger replied no. Yesterday in the Legislature Ityecial to The Intclligonw. * COLUMBIA, Jan.. 25.-Repr?senla Live J. A. McCullough, of .Greenville, tonight Introduced several bille af; tectlng cotton mill counties.' One rais ing the age U'nit t'J fourteen years, io as to conform to the compulsory school attendance bills,? -now before the Senate and House. Another bill gives the' commissioner >f agriculture authority to Investigate the sanitary conditions m mill coun ties and mske reasonable rules ana regulations with reference to same ?nd the enforcement of same. Reprsaetantivc McCullough elko in- | troduced a bill relative to flre escapes In buildings and relative to tr." use or iangerous machinery. Another bill requires mills to post j the hours when the machinery will itart and stop. Which boura anett con form to law. The bill regulating shripmept of li quors was. tonight passed to the third reading on the House calendar. This bill prohibits the ordering or roy beverages from a point without the state in excess of one gatton and m ly on permit from th? clerk of court. Duly one such permit caa be issued n one month sud no permit will he ssued to a person ander gl years of ige. . The bill of Senator Sherard pro dding for the appointment of four ?uh ty commissioners for Anderson ?unty by tho governor has paai ??.th houses or the legislature and was onlght ordered enrolled for ratines ton. The Senate passed to third read ug the bill to repeal the State iucof-c ax law and passed and sent io the louse tbs Uti allowing moving pic ares in publie schools. The Joint resolution extending tim? or ih? payment of taxes until April st went to third reading. OLUM8IA, S. C.. Jan. 25.-The louse late tonight passed to third .etding the Moore bill repealing tne ot ton acreage reduction law, tb? vote SPEAKS ACROSS THE CONTINENT _ PRESIDENT WILSON TALKS DIRECT TO PARTIES IN SAN FRANCISCO IfONTRAGUIJnTES THE INVENTOR Said He Could Hear the Voice of the Speaker in Western City Distinctly. (By Amoctaud Presa.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.-President Wtteon today Inaugurated the first transcontinental telephone system by speaking directly to President .Mooro, of the 'Panama-Pacific Exposition, in San Francisco. Wtih Mr. Moore, Alexander Oraham Bell, the inventor cf the telephone, and President Vail, of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company, on the wire at differ ero paints the president extended congratulations on the achievement. "It ippeals to the imagination to .peak across the continent," said the president to Mr. Moore. With Dr. Bell listening In on the Hue, at New York the president spoke to Thomas A .Watson hi San Fran Wkwk i Mr. Watson was Dr. Bell's electrician at the tune of the inven tion ot the telephone and was the first fWiwa to hear a word spoken over a ottsider it aa honor," said the president, "to be able to express my admiration for the inventive genius -and scientific kfinowledge that has inade this possible and my pride that tal cord should have been ted .across America as a new symbol of our unity and our enter WM you not convey my cor dial congratulations to Dr. Bell? And ? want to convey to you my personal congratulations, slr." With Mr. Veil listening lu on tho Jekyll Island the president ?Unto jppa&e to Dr. Bell. ?.<H?aTnrnlit?/.t^T$S^ warmtjp ?ca this notable ?onaumma tlon of your loqg labors and remark able achievements?'' said tho presi dent. -You are Justified in feeling a great pride in what has been done. This is a memorable dar and I convey to you my warm congratulations.'' Tne president nala ihai uti cou ii hear MT. Moore'tn'San Francisco dis tinctly. , President Overheard by Scores.. . NBW'YoRK. Jan. 25.-President Wilson's conversations from Wash ington with San Francisco were over heard by scores of persons in the tel ephone . company's offices, including c?ty officials, business men and rep resentatives of engineering and civic organiza tiooe. The trans-continental service will not be established'tor public use un til nhout March 1. It will cost $20.70 for . person In New York to talk for three minutes with San Francisco and $6.75 fer each additional minute. New Train All Steel Equipment of Blue Ridge Railroad in Use. The all-steel train of the Dlufc HU' KO Ballway was formally put into com mission yesterday, leaving out of An derson for Walhalla on tbe noon trip. Thc old train was run up from Bel ton and when lt arrived at the depot passengers, baggage, mall and express matter .were transferred to the new oteel trriin. The train yesterday consisted of a new engine, which arrived several weeks ago and which has been tully doser".bed in The Intelligencer pre viously, two first class passenger coaches and the combination mail and express car. The combination baggage and passenger car has not arrived, but is expected within the next few days. The new equipment fa up-to-date in every respect and compares favorably with the best equipment of the main linea of the big railroads In this sec tion of the country. The new train is, nf course, electrically lighted. AH other loa tures ot the train are the most modern to be found in railroad train construction. .Officials of the Blue Ridge Railroad are,' of course, elated j over thc new train ead there is not an ?mployee of the xoad who is not proud of lt. to aay nothing of the the traveling public. Pension Bill Berried Favorae'r. WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-The an nual pension appropriation bili ag gregating $! 35.000,000 was reported favorably to the house today. The bili reduces est????*" by $1,000,000. It includes as appropriation of $100.-1 000 for examining surgeon?' fees. A Powerful Locomotive Westinghouse's Dream Fulfilled When Electrically Propelled Locomotive Passes Test. BLL'EFIELD. W. Va.. Jun. aa. -Til? I world's most powerful electrically propelled locomotives passed success ful tests on the Elkhorn division ol the Norfolk and Western railroad last week and thereby fulfilled a dream of the late George Westinghouse, In ventor of the air-brake. Fourteen th?usand horsepower was needed to start a full tonnage train and nearly 8,0000 was used to propel. Two loco motives, on0 at each end, were usea to haul the train, which weighed 4, 000 tons. Each locomotive weighed 270 tons and the starting effort on the draw bar reached 180,000 pounds, enough to move a 250-car train. A teat of electric breaking, Westing house's idea, was ?Vso suoceeaful. The engines were able to hold the train at steady speed on a mountain grade without the train brakes. The ' ' electricity saved on the downgraue ! ?B returned to the ayatem for use on ' other trains j Will Sail With 10,000 i j Bala? of Cotton !, (By AaraiatM PIM.) WILMINGTON, N. C., Jon. 85.-With her hatchea sealed and cargo certified by the collector of customs, the Amer ican steamer City of Columbus. Cap tain Johnson, received her clearance papers late today and will sall at day light tomorrw for Rotterdam with a cargo of 10,000 balea of cotton for trans-shipment to Germany. The ship ibas been under constant observation I ot a customs official since her arrival for the purpose of certification. I Can Prosecute Appeal At Public Expense ... (By Arndt??NProw.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-The cu prum o court today granted. p&rmisBivi. tendent of a xi orphans' home at Green i ville, 8, C.. to prosecute at public ex pense In the South Carolina courts,' for I a grave offense. This was done as the result ot a petit ton setting Out that I Vaughn waa without money, his family ! phor tVat exansinatk?? la?t Or.ti?!> er showed Vaughn to bo of unsound mind. COMMISSION MAY HAVE US OWN TREASURER ?OR AT LEAST THIS WAS IN FORMALLY SUGGESTED YESTERDAY MET INFORMALLY Probable That C?:-unis*Ion Will Meet Today and Perfect Or? ganiaation. 'ff >wc?v : . ; . Members of the board of paving commissioners met Informally yester day afternoon In the oifiee of City At torney G. Cullen Sullivan for a pre liminary discussion of mattera per taining to organization. It ts probable that the commissioners will hold a meeting today and organise for work. The board will elect a chairman, aa city council, in special Beaslon last Saturday, rescinded ita previous action I In adopting one feature ot a resolu tion specifying that the mayor should be chairman of the paving 'commis sion. The commietdonors yesterday af ternoon informally discussed the ad visability of the board electing ita own treasurer, who shall handle all funds, and lt was informally agreed that such a step would be taken. Th* Idea in this waa to entirely divorce the paving commission from city council. ??lng After Hear Trade. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Creation of a Pan-American hank with princi pal Offices at Ancon and with capital stock of 125.000,000, of which ?13,000, 000 would be subscribed by Gie Unit ed Slates government, waa introduced .??fcfp' by Representative Helm, of Kentucky, with a view to reaching out for the South and Central American trade. Federal Am?nrHttm Sets? Oase, WASHINGTON. Je?. 2S.-Seventy five carloads of oats intended for ex . pdrt shipment have been seised by t'ue federal authorities on the ground that the grain was adulterated within the meaning of the food and'drug act. STREET PAVING SUPREME ISSUE ENDORSED BY ALL ATTEND ING ANNUAL MEETING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE -JELD LAST NIGHT AT HEADQUARTERS Occasion One of Good Feeling and Many Good Speeches Were Enjoyed. Thc second annuel meeting ot the Chamber ot Commerce was held last light in the rooms of the organisa tion on North Main street, President fas. D. Hammett, presiding. The oe mslon was one ot good feeling end ?xempllfied the spirit of cooperation md progressiTsness that has always characterised the dealings of the cu zens of. this city. The paramount la me up for discussion was stroet pav ng and every member of the organi sation was heartily In favor of push ng the matter ot paving. The terms of office or three mem bers of the board of directors expired, Messrs. M. at Mattlson, T. Prank Watkins, and W. L. Brlssey. The fol lowing gentlemen were selected to Jil their places: Messrs. J. E. Barton, Ft. E. Llgon, and E. R. Horton. These gentlemen are representativo of the spirit of progrese and will carry for ward the ideas of those whom they succeed es well as any who could liave been chosen. Thc exercises were opened by Rev. I. W. Speake, pastor of the St. John's Methodist church, who delivered the Invocation. The next number was a tong by a Quintet composed Of Messrs. Px R. King. P. M. Burnett, I. D. Rest. L. L. Rice and H. B. FHs serald. This song was quite catchy ind struck the popular fancy as evi denced by the liberal applause. -M -.5 _ JJ__ <-i_t_^^a* ! * advantages .enjoyed hy thia section, of the. maximum production of all farm products, of water power, and electrical development, which are re sponsible for tho supremacy of the Piedmont section. Uoiortunaiety tais um, beca a har? year for the people and now we have A period of business' depression but those periods aro necessary for the proper development of a mon or of a people. Good will come from lt? and It will te?&h our people not to lepnnd upon a one-crop system, but that by diversification we shall grow more independent and richer by far. "The future ls bright with hopo." said General Bonham. "This ls no Lime for pessimism. We have much avldenclng our prosperity. Our new ?pera bouse, our new Bluo R'dge passenger station, the development of Lbe C. & W. C. property end many jther things speak of our prosperity." The speaker eloquently spoke of tho oourage ot those who wore the tray more than half a century ago. who came homo to an impoverished land, and set about making the aplon lld law and heritage we are now en vying. "Surely tho people of the 3outh will not despair, but we sholl tie worthy ot onr sires and look for ward with confidence in the future ?nd in auraelves," concluded the speaker amid applause. G. Callen Sullivan, Es?. The next speaker was City Attor ley G. Cullen Sullivan, who was as signed the subject of "Paving." Ho nade a strong slea for the paving proposition and was liberally ap plauded. He said hu ha/, been read ng the Saturday Eve? in g Post* re cently, and was struck by a remsrk >f Andrew Carnegie who attributed its succesa io concentration. ! "This," said the speaker, "ls all that we need o have Ute paving Issue succeed, ["hero must be a give and take polt :y. oe it ls hardly over possible for my plan to be proposed which will neat with the approval ot every one. rbis audience can accomplish the ?>vlne of Anderson if they will pull oeetb*r " Speaking of the commission Mr. Sui iv?u said he felt the commlssio of ?usiner* men had beep appointed fu! y able to handle the paving proposi on. This commission will effect tts iwn organlatlon. select its presiding ifflcer and Its treasurer and bave full ind complete control of ute proposi ten. The speaker diseased Ute proposed sw, of which he to Ute author, as In reduced in tho legislature and ex plained several cf Ita provisions, .here will be no tax for paving side ralka. as it waa thought inequitable a have property owners pay for pav ag sidewalks as so muoh of tho city aa sidewalks already constructed by he city. Afr. Sullivan stated thar If the abut. lng property law were defeated here would Ne no bond tosue, as the (Continued on Page pour)