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FOUR DROWNED IN CAPE FEAR RIVER DR. J. M. CALDWELL, CLELL CALD WELL, DR. J.- H. -BQRNEMAN AND GERMAN. ALL WERE PROMINENT MEN Motor Boat Capsizes as Party Goes on Visit to interned Vessels at Wilmington. WII i lington.-i'he treacherous Cape Fear Htiver added anotlic'r tragedy to its long list shortly after iliidliglt when 1)r. Morris N. Caldwell, his brotler, Clell Caldwell of New York, who was visiting him, Dr. J. It. Borne manni and Chief Engineer Iarwell of the German steater Nicaria. Itterned here, were drowned. The smitall notor )loat Iln whichi they were cros-sing tihe Niver to visit the two interned Ger man stearners, the Nicaria and the Kiel, capsized i in idstream opposite the foot of Grace street. Clijef ingineer Reimers of the steaier Kiel, tlie fifti mtemniber' of the party, was the only one to be saved. Ile Is a good swimmer and reached some piling which he clung to until Cauptain llollasehi of the Nicaria in re iIlonsOe to calls for lielpi. went to Ils assistance in a smnall boat. Altlough the triver has beel tlor oughIly draggetd for several blocks ad sia.rehin ag parties have been out all day n1onte of the bodies'S has yet beln r(ecovered. Doctors Cabwell and Jornem'ianil and Mr. Caldwell wer seated inl st-ern of t boat. Timi boa It was low domwi inl the1 water 'ami the( li;hts lt wotihi ha t' 4 :useld I I ti ta ke in wa tIr. It is ilitoulht thuat o t- of the tltn-u ra ised 11ulp cauisinig fite boat to (ip. h% ing to the wei;lt of engin. and .umal size Of the c-alt a little watI caised it to go tIo the bottomt instant ly. 'Tle firaredy has cast a gloom o(ver the cutine connIiity it Y. I'housands of peoplE lined tile river front all day witching the large number of hoats en'aged in dragging the river for the b) odi es. CUSTOMS OFFICES SEIZED. Caperton Reports Business Conditions in Haiti Improving. Nashington.--Rear Admiral Caper ton, commanding the American naval forces in Haiti, reported that he had taken over the admisistration of the custonis office a.t Cape 1laitenl and. had placed Paymaster Charles Morris of the cruiser Wilmington temporarily in cbarge. No mention was made of the reported seizure of tho customs offico at Port tut Prince. Business conditions in Capo Haitien, the dispatelh said, were improving and there was an apparent disposition among the natives to upiort the city gover'nment beinig recorga nized by Ad mniral Caper'ton. TIhec Adiranl 's d Iipatch reported the arrival of the Iliaitilen gunboat Nor'd Alexis at P'ort au ince with 800 dis arme'd l1altietn sold i'rs, who were r'scoted I to telir lionmes by Amel Crican inaines itfte r pledging thteminsel ves to keep the pearte. Our Navy Advisory Board. New~ York.-- -'Thi' Amtertican Society 11' Aeroniauitie' 111ginteers ann1 iounIcedi lie appoilnmet of Ilt-tn'y A. W\ise .Koodl. its pre'(sidet, andl Elimer A. sperriy, its vile Itr'esident, as til'mbl ers ,f thle nav~y adv1-isor'y board of inven-ti A speit''al ('ommlittece suthidivided in. 0 thrte'( groups, wa':s appointed by thm oo'iety to to-opterat e with itNir. \\'oid .nd Nir. Sperrty. Th le groupt Is adii , tealber's are:t Theory tond ('onstruttion of A era -latnes and Aero'tnautIical Ni ototrs, Or ille Wright. Gle'nn It. (ut lin, W. .tarlng Ilurgess, andt (Charles NT. lnly. Apprilientioni of Airct'aft for' Warfar'e 'ter (cotper Hiewit t, Joln ilI aysI lamiii toad,.1 Jr., and JIosepih A. Stec imt lDirigible Blaloons and P'arneh'ute.s, homas Hi. Blaldwini. A. Leo St evens alph II. Uptsoni anid Raymiond n. rice.t Protect Atlantic Seaboard. Newport, It. .-The Atlantic fleet Is gain to he pitt to the test of protect. ig thle 10asterni seabhoard from lnv'a (in by a supposed for'eign flee't. Ad-' thral Frank IH. Fletcher. its t'om-~ and, anniounced that officers of the tIval war college were at work map * ~~ng ou t thle proletms of aniot her wa r ime to take pla ce aift er the taitrget '-a(ti'e inl Narrtangans-et itay next . Aecordhtig to Admiral l'att'her * ii' itman('eves will be biasedt omn i ns deiv ed fromi tihe nimiie wvar oif st Jun e Cotton Crop Off. New Orleans--In a final report on e0 cotton crop of 1914-15, HI. 0. lies r, secretary of the New Orle'atn Cot .n F~xchanige, shows that while ',004,000 bales were growvn the corn. ercial crop was only 15.108,111 hales di that tihe value of the crop, includ ~g seed, was $749,384,9t78 as against ~,134,444,1114 for the proceeding op Th crop Is sploken of as run. ng remarkably. even In grade, aver ring mki~dlng without a auper-abund ice of either the higher or the lowei 'ades. SIMEON E. BALDWIN Simeon E. Ealdwin, former governor of Connecticut, has been mentioned for the place of counselor of the state de par'emnent, left vacant by the appoint ment of Robert Lansing as secretary of state. He is now seventy-six years old. R[fUTE [NGL[AND'S CLAIM STASISTICS ARE BEING PREPAR ED BY UNITED STATES TO DISPROVE ARGUMENT. Ctudying Trade Conditions Between United States and Neutral Euro pean Countries. Washingrton.-The state department hats assemibled elaborate statistics to refute the British assumption that in ('reased expo"tations) fr'omi the United States to neutral IEuropean countries indiente that some of these goods lind their way into Germtany and Austria. TPhe figur ies will be iniclutded In a pre liinatry dIraft being prepared for P'residlent Wi'lsoni of the reply to the three British notes. T1he state de partment has made a study of trade conditions between the United States and neutral European countries and the departemunt of commerce has in vestigated Scandinavian and Dutch trade. A report on the foreign tradeQ of Great Britain for the six months ended June 30 also has been reoceiv. ed from Consul General Skinner at London. It shows that exports to thc Scandinavian countries and H-ollandl have increased since the wvar began along the same lines as American ex Ports to those countries. The report al-so shows that while Great Britain'.t exp~orts decreased in the flirst six months of 1913 as com ared to the samuie peCriod of 1914, im. liorts increasedl. Re-exports during June, the first month curing which the British order-In-councIl was fully effective, showed an increase of $2, 904,838. In cotton, one of the much-disputed articles in the trade, Great Britain's Imports inereased by 1,314,592 cen ta.ls of 112 p)ounds each. Of the re exports of cotton Consul General Skinner sagid: "H~ollandi and Sweden each took about five times its much cotton in June, 1915, as In June, 1914, and du. ring the past half year Sweden re. ceived 14f2,543 centals and Holland 29,628 oentals of cotton as against 18,642 eentals and 17,785 cntasi re spectively In the, same periodl of 1914. UNWISE ACTION HURT FARMER President Harding of the Federal Re serve Board Compares Conditions. Washington.-Conditions that con front the south in handling the 1915 cotton ceop and conditions a year ago are ontrastel in analysis by W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board In the current issue of the Fedleral Theserve Bulletin. The position of cotton today is much stronger, finacial and othe. conditions are much better than a year ago, lin Mr. Harding's opinion and if the people of the south wil not weaken their position "by uinwis action" they have little to fear. "Th cotton tragedny of 1914," says Mr larding. "will be succeeded In 1911 ly nothing more serious than dIraman." Mr. tarding warns the south in it de(sire to see a' broad market estah lished for cotton to do nothing to em bairrass President Wilson in his 'on duc't of international affairs. It shouili be rrte mbered. says Mr. Hardcin "that the Pruesident owes a highe (lut y to the south ,to the whole cour' I r d ( to mankind, at this junctur tihan estabilishtment of cotton value. National Denfense Vital Subject. Cornish. N. H.-Preaident Wilso plans to make na-tional defense on of the principal subjects in his ney message to congress. WVhile he wi not dlecidle finally on the policy 11 will ask congress to approve uint after he has receiveti the reports r (luesteq) from Secretary Garrison as D~aniels, it became known that he s ready has given preliminary thougl to the' (uestionl. He had planned receive t,he reports from the two se 'rtdijes wthen he returns to'W~aubin MEXICAN SITUATION IS LEFT UNDICIDED PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE AD JOURNS WITHOUT REACHING DEFINITE DECISION. STUDYING A GENERAS PLAN Many Elements Arise to Confront Con forees in Their Efforts to Settle the Trouble. Washington. - The Pan-American Conference considering means of re storing peace to Mexico adjourned after developing no diverengence of opinion as to its general purposes, bit( leaving undecided the exact course to Cr be pursued. I-t will reassemble in New wi York soon, to Meanwhile the Latin-American dip- Be lomats will communicate with their co governments and Secretary Lansing - will confer with President Wilson. It was reported that -the general form of the final appeal to the fac tional leaders had been agreed upon by the conferees and adjournment taken while Mr. Lansing laid it before the President. The secretary was said to be at work on a draft of the appeal in consulta.tion with Secretary Lane who has kept In close touch with the Mexican situation. The message will be addressed .to the 'Mexican pIo- Wr ple. Copies w%'ill be presented to the F various "Mexican leaders and gover nors of the Mexican states, without regard to what faction they belong. F Two days of conferences and hear- city Ilg reports have brought all the par- cit) ticipants in accord with President seri Wilson's general plan, which is prem- 'I ised on the fact that the great ma- floc jority of the people of Mexico desire m1o1 peace. The conferees were impress- Asa ed that while the armed forces are in his position to keel) the country in a state wa of turmoil, they are, nevertheless. out only a small proportion of the people A of Mexico. rep While all the participants have sig- J nified their willingness to co-operate stri with the President's plan to induce the v military factions to enter another the peace conference the South Ameri- the cans are not sanguine of success un- the less some way can be found for the tai elimination of the military leaders ' and the recognition of all classes in str Miexico. str an( GERMANS GET IVANGOROD. fas ________spi Russians Burn All Bridges and Retreat Ni to Southeast. London.-Novogeorgievsk, the great u Russian fortress to the north of War- of saw is not the sole possession of the an Russian along the Vistula. Here it is W purposed by the Russians to stand a' siege behind its well-fortified lines ho against the oncoming forces of Field Li Mar1shal von HIindenburg- an Like Warsaw, the ivangorod fort- ch ress southeas-t of the Capital, also has been abandoned to the Teuton-ic Al- th lies. g As wuas the ease at Warsaw the an Russians dlestroyedi the bridge cr-oss- o ing the Vistula before they evacuated. While they left the Warsaw fortifica tions vir-tually intact to .the invaders, nu tnse at Ivangor-od were dlemolished, by acor-ding to Ber-lin. s North oif Warsaw the Germans in th the Narew region arec continuing the h~u drive of the Russ-ians, while in the lai southeastern section-the Russians are du dleclared still to be on the retreat, but an offer-ing resistance in r'ear guard ac tions. "VIctory Shots" Fire?, In London-The Amsterdam corres pondlent of the Exchange Telegraph company reports: "A Berlin (displitch th states .that General von Kessel, mili. At tary commander of Berlin, ordered a w salute of 60 'victory shots' flred a~t noon ab in honor of the taking of Warsaw." ha .- ________-th Concessions to Employes. tic Toledo, 0.-Eleven thousand em- n ployes of the Willys-Overland Com pany receivedl notice that 48 hours ha will constitution a work week at the sl( plant nfter November. This was made iv voluntarily by the company about six ha weeks ago. so _______________bu More Marines to HaitI. bl~ Washington.--An additional regi gr ment of marines wvas ordered to Haiti s to reinforce Rear Admiral Caperton's th men now maintaining order in Cape br Haitlen and Port Au Prince. They .sa will sail from Philadelphia on the ci cruiser' Tennessee and Co. La. W. Wall ler, UT. S. M. C.. commanding, wvill be placed( in charge of onorations ashore in Haiti under the direction of Ad- 01 mir-al Caperton. He will have avail- a abile in all 1,900 men. 79 machine guns is andl four three-inch navy field pieces. t General Tracy Dead. New Y'ork.-Gen Benjamin F. Tracy it twho was President Harrison's sec-re- S Il tary of the navy, died of paralysis s e here after a period of unconsciousness e 11 lasting nIne days. General Tracy's- r ?' death followed a fight for life that had C dI amazed the physicians at his bedside. IOnly his extraprljnary vitalnty ahdd Skept him alive for the better part of .0 the past week. Three years ago Gen c- oral Tracy sustained a shock of pa rpV~1ysiB, but rallied and was soon out ~ MISS MABEL BOARDMAN Miss Boardman, director of the Red oss, apparently in disregard of the shes of President Wilson, continues issue reports of the organization :ting forth the distressing famine iditions in Mexico. i Ll[S LOST IN FLOOD FO THOUSAND ARE HOMELESS IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. STREETS FLOODED. eckage is Piled 70 Feet High in leart of the City.-Big Storm In Richmond, Virginia. :rie. Pa.-A cloudburst over this flooded the business part of the to a depth of live feet, causing ous property daiage. lie plant of the Erie Dispatch was (led and all attempts to get out a 'ning edition were abandoned. The ociated P'ress operator abandoned wire when it became useless and led five blocks in water and sent the first bulletin. policeman and three civilians are nrtd to have been drowned. ohin Higgins of 207 East Eighth ,et was the first victim recovered. Vreckage is piled 70 feet high in heart of the city and at midnight water had receded somewhat but estimate of 25 dead was still main .ed. 'lie flood started at Twenty-eighth ret and came down Mill Creek. The eai rose four feet in five minutes 1 then the onrush of water came so t it was impossible to estimate its ied. rho worst congestion came at itli street In the center of the city. If a dozen houses here were piled in the path of the waters. Scores people are still Inside these houses l under thle debris at that point. tether they are alive is nat known. I'hree hundred flood sufferers were used in the National Guard Armory. tIle children separated from parents Il parents frantically searching for Idren were huddled together. About 200 persons are housed in a City Rescue Mission and hospitals (1 other chiaritable institutions have ened their doors. Damage in Richmond. Richmond, Va.-With a rainfall of >re than three inches, accompanied a high wind, Riehmond was storm ept and damage estimated at more in $500,000 has been done. Three ildings in the business district col sed and a large number of small 'ellings in the low grounds were ept away. RUSSIANS CLING TO WARSAW. vaders Have Been Unable to Move For Some Days. (ondon.-The stubhorn resistance 3 Russians are offering to the stro-Germans and the slowness th which the invaders have been le to move during the last few days, s led to the belief in some quarters 10 the German supply of ammuni n is diminishing and that Russia uy yet save Warsaw. Previous German tactics, however, ye been to follow a temporary wing down with greater efforts and en Field Marshall von Mackenson s concluded his operations in the itheast, Field Marshall von Hinden rg is expected to renew his heavy )ws on the Narew front. F~or the moment, therefore, the eatest Interest attaches to the uthecast, where accoirding to Berlin, c Germans have extended their idlgehead positions south of War w; the Austrians have gained a do sive success to the west. Want Cotton Contraband. Manchester, Eng.-The city council Manchester at a meettng adopted resolution demanding that the Brit h government declare cotton COn aband. BandIts Fight Cavalrymen. Brownsville, Texas.--Mexicanl band. s, believed surrounded by United tates cavalry mend and Texas deputy tieriffs in the brush north r this city, scaped. The Mexicans camip was ished and six saddled horser werc aptured. Their riders, however rere gone. In a fight earlier In the ay between the bandiits and cavalry ion, Private McGuire of the Twelftl lavalry was killed and Privates Curtlh nd Clapsaddle , were wounded. A eputy sheriff also was hit by a stral n11nt. WARSAW FALLS INTO HANDS OF GEDMANS THIRD LARGEST CITY OF RUSSIA IS YIELDED TO THE TEUTONS. MONTHS OF TENSE MOMENTS Leopold of Barvarla Smashes Last Do. fenes.--Russlans Flee, Burning All of Value Behind. Berlin, by wireless to Tuckertowa, N. J.-Warsaw was taken by German troops, according to official announce ment made at German army headquar ters. Bavarian troops under the command of Prhkce Leopold broke .through the forts of the outer and inner lines of the city's defenses where the rear guards of the Russian troops made a tenacious resistance. Continuing the report from head quarters says: "The German armies under Gener, al von Scholz and General von Call witz advanced in the direction of the road between Lomza, Ostrov, and Vi zkow and fought a number of violent engagements. The grave and desper ate resistance of the Russians on. both sides of the road between Ostrov and Rozan was without success. "Twenty-two Russian officers and 4,840 soldiers were taken prisoners. The Germans also captured 17 ma chine guns. "German cavalary defeated in Cour land detachments of Russian cavalry at points near Genaize, Birschi nd Oniskszahty. A total of 2,225 Russian prisoners were taken. "The situation near and to the north of Ivangorod remains unchanged. "The campaign is being continued between the upper "Vistula River and the River Bug.. German cavalrymen have entered Wladimirwolynsk, on the Bug River. "In the Vosges there has been a new engagement near the Lingekopf." With the Russian admission in last official communication that the Rus sian forces defending the Blonie front had been withdrawn all hope that Warsaw could be saved was abandon ed. The outer line of forts to which the Russians withdrew are only six miles from the center of the capital and these defenses apparently were carried, the inner line of defenses be ing captured in time to enable the victors to enter the city early in the morning. The statement from Petrograd that the Russian retirement to the Blonie Nadzaryn front had been carried out unhindered was taken here to indicate that Grand Duke Nicholas had every thing in readiness for the evacuation of Warsaw itself and the announce ment in Berlin's statement that only a stubborn rear' guard blocked the ad vance of the Germans seems to con firm -that the main army wvith Its guns had escaped being caught in the bita del. What part of theb army of Grand Duke Nicholas was able to extricate itself from the enfolding line of Field Mar-shal von Hindenbur-g coming from the north is increasingly problemati cal. It is believed that this pressure from the north was one of the chief reasons for compelling the final aban dlonment of Warsaw in order to per mit tile Grand Duke to send reinforce ments to save his .right wing. The occupation of Warsawv also wvll have the effect of releasing large Ger man forces, concentr'ated on the re dluction of the city arid permit them to tulrn westwvard for renewed opera tions against the Anglo-French Allies. The British military autho~ties agree that the fall of the city will have far-reaching effects on the east ern and western war theaters. The first determined drive against Warsawv from the west occurred last October-. Within a short timne the German advance guar-ds penetrated to within 19 midles of the city. Russian r-einforcIeents fr-om Galicia, wvere brought up and the Germans wer~e swept back to their borders. Another attempt at Warsaw oc curred In February after tile Russians had for the second time been driven out of East Prussia. This time the attack Camne from the north and. Field Marshall von Hlindenburg's forces reached and captured Przrisnysz with 10,000 prisoners February 26. Three days later, however, the Russians re captured it and put the Germans on the defensive. The fall of Warsaw marks tile cul. ninatlon of the greatest sustained of fensive movement of the Europeari wvar. Other Countries Pleased, Buenos Aires.--The newspapers o1 Buenos Aires express in principld their acceptance of the appeal of the United States for the co-operation o Argentina, Brasiil, Ohile, Bolivia, Urug, ulay and Guatemala in the pacifleatior of Mexico. L. Prensa, however, whIl( praising this proposal as generaous, ex presses -the opinion that the~mediatior of the United States would be prefer able except the warring factions, ii Mexico should specifically desire thi moral help of Latin-AmericaD Repuby STATE TAX BOARDS TO ASSESS BANKS COMMISSION WILL CONTINUE WORK PENDING COURT'S DECISION. SUPREME COURT WI.L AGREE Chief Justice Gary Stays Injunction and Writ of Mandamus by Judge R. C. Watts. Columbia.-Eugene B. justice of the supreme ce. two orders which will allo tax commission to oontinu of assessing the banks of olina. The commission wi with its work until the i finally determined by the ful bupreme court. Tle orders of Chief Justice Gary 0 stay the injunction and the writ of mandamus orders signed several days ago at Laurens by R. C. Watts, asso clate justhe. The orders stay the proceedings In the cases of the Peoples National 'ank of Greenville -"in behalf of it self and all other banks in this state" and the National Loan and Exchange bank of Greenwood and W. T. Bailey against the tax commission. Both cases will be argued at the November term of the supreme copurt. The order in the Greenwood case Is as follows, issued by Judge Gary: "It appearing unto the court that the defendants herein have given d'ue notice of appeal and that the return has been duly flied with the clerk of the supreme court, from an order heretofore passed by his honor, R. C. Watts, associate justice of the su preme court, on the 26th day of July, 1.915, and which has been duly filed in the ofilce of the rnerk of the su preme court and the writ of nianda mus issued, or -to be issued thereun der, now upon motion of Thomas I. Peeples, attorney general, and Fred H. Dominick, assistant attorney gen eral, attorneys for the defendants. "It is ordered that all proceedings in the matter be stayed until the fur ther order of this court. "And it is further ordered, That the operation and effect of all the said order or orders issued in said pro ceedings by his honor, Judge Watts, and the writ or writs of mandamus issued or to, be issued under said or der or orders be, and the same are hereby, suspended during the pend ency of the appeal herein." The following order was signed by Judge Gary in the Greenville bank case: "It appearing unto the court that the defendants herein have given due notice of appeal and that the return has been duly filed with the clerk of the supreme court from an order heretofore passed by his honor, R. C. Watts, associate justice of the su preme court, on the 26th day of July, 1915, and which 'has boe* dully filed in the office of clerk of court for Richland county and t,he writ of in junction issued or .to be issued there under, nowv upon nmotdon of 'Thos HI. Peeples, attorney gene 1l, and Fred H. Dominick, assistant arney general, attorneys for the def iiants. "It is ordered -that' proceedaings in the matter be stay mntil the fur ther order of this cour "And it is further- .rdTa the operation and eff o l h said order or orders o jnto s sued in said proceedln hshnr Judge Watts, and "the' -to rt of Injunction issued o beisd under 'Bald order or o~ -b, n the same are hereby, su lddr ing the pendency of the ahe FlorenjenBondsnSold lorene.-Cit and s hool bonto, at a rmium of1,16-1 t a ovepr andt thewhoe isuewasbouhtby thsed bodsber herae f - per cen in eret an maure n 4 and20 eadr. Florenbe.-it an nthubnstoc mtinaeldnto $222,00 Sprinsl heres satpeion o 1.16-100n thoe. iprove FirstNaonbk of theAlcinhisgciay frohe Condsmbiar tAhevile, Nf C. wa com i ptes oanitue Com40snd2ersE. For Wattertigehewatoh Mountis.o frmSpartanurgA ande ethesmet-c ming Afeld pefatGeSpings oranao cageofh forrming the pla rove . audment. ow of the Apalcmaorgw y o ConmbabAhlye has the largs faom pilytly orgdcnyandComdsobtess as tJ. Wtateo, Totoethe wnthmpbe ofhi cildzens rom the ltowne arrngth perofe highwa and a beeatio twice 16parthgrg cht-ende he meyt first Avftern -prtte aiigan1zatyon las iea comHe whaE. 41 gratson ran tharman wras anint e t tak I 'I