FRENOR DECLARE
AR ON BULGARU
FRENCH TROOPS IN MACEDONIA
ARE ENGAGED WITH 40,000
BULGARIANS.
GIVE AID TO LITTLE SERBIA
italian Participation in Balkan Cam
paign is only at Beginning
of Hostilities.
London.--The French government
has announced the existence of a state
of war bet.ween France and Bulgaria,
dating from 6 a. im., October 16. This
follows the British declaration made
the previous night.
Almost co-incidentally comes the
report from Athens that the French
troops in Macedonia are engaged
with 40.000 Bulgarians.
Already thousands of Anglo-French
troops. who landed at Saloniki, are
en route to form a junction with the
Serbians or take up strategic posi
tions against. the Bulgarian advance.
A late dispatch from Mlalta, the
British naval station in the Alediter
ranean, predicts that the Entente Al
lies in the next few days will send
strong tew forces to Saloniki for oper
ations against the the Teutons and
Bulgarians. Hard pressed on the Save
Danube front by Austro-German
troops estimated at 280,000 men and
fighting at various points to check
the Bulgarians. the Ser'bians are anx
iously awaiting Anglo-French assist
ance, hut they are favored by weath
or conditions and mntural defenses of
the country with the result that the
.ivaders' progress has not been pro.
nounced.
Italian participation in the Balkan
campaign apparently is no nearer
than at the beginning of hostilities,
but the Italians on the Austrian fron
tier have displayed renewed activity
and according to the Italian official
communication "by a hold and well
conducted operation took by storm
the strong position of Pregasina."
WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH.
Three Die and Several injured in Big
Atlanta Fire.
Atlanta, Ga. - Three women lost
their lives and one other was seriously
burned In a fire which swept the of
ficos of thie Mutual Film Corporation
on the second floor of an office build
ing here. Ex-plosion of an electric
fuse in a room where picture films
were being prepared for shipment is
believed to have started the blaze,
which spread so rapidly that the score
of women and girls employed in the
place were trapped.
The dead are: Miss Clara West
brook, Miss Iottie HIamm and Mrs.
Lucille Davis and the. uteriously burn
ed is Miss lHeulah Yoos. Soveral
other employes sustained lesser in
juries from the flames and froem jump
ing.
Great Britain Needs 3,000,000 Men.
000.000 men by next spring." This
declaration was made by Ibrig. G4en.
Eric Swayne, director of recruiting in
the norther-n conunnand1(, in a sprech at
Hull. Giener-al Swayne estimated that
Germany still has between 9.000.000
and 10,000,000 men from the ages of
18 to 45 and that, theriefore, it was
useless to talk ahout wvear-ing out Ger
many.
In the spring, said he, Germnany
would lose miore iuuenj thani the Atllies,
which would bialanice the tttunnher-s of
the Allies and the Central P owe-rs,
'but if Great iritatin shoulId r-aise3 ,
000,000 add itiontal. G ermnany probhably
would recognize that it would be0
fruitless to contiue.
Coroner's Inquest Under Guard.
Columbia, S. ( .*. -lnder- uoes fronm
Governor MannIg the coroner's in
Quest in Chatrleston was heldi iunder
military protection and nil per-sons at
tending the inquest were dlisamned
Solicitor W. IH. Cobbl of the fifth cir
cuit, assisted Solicitor William HI
Grimnball in representing the state a
the inquest, in accordlanco with in
etructions from the gover-nor.
Five Persons Burn to Death.
New York.-Fivo persons were
burned to deat'h andl three injured it
a fire in a five-story Thir-d aveon
tenement house on the Upper Ens
8ide The injured and remnaining
rnembers of eighut families werte res~
cued 'by plolice and firemen. 'The dean
'were three inembers of one family
i~rs. Julia Weniz and her' two daugh
ters, 13 and 15 years old, atnd tw<
-memnbers of another familly. Mrs. An.
.nette Grochal and her- four--year-oik
son, Mrs. Wenz and her- childruenl die(
in their beds.
Pasuienger Car Goes Through Bridge,
'Randolph, Kas.--Eighteeni persons
are believed to have lost theft- liv-es
'when a pasenger car of a Unioni Pa.
* cife motor train plunged thriouigh a~
bridge into Fancy Creek. near here.
-' at-least 10 anore wore believedi to be
;in the mud sand water filled car.
eMost of the recovered (lead, includingR
fve women and flye rmen, were drown
ed, Of the 65 occuparlts of the motor
- rei only four .escape unhurt. M
~. b'passpageng wo fougig woEi
MRS. A. R. SIMPSON AND SO
....
Mrs. Alston R. Simpson, daughter of
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and
her son. Mrs. Simpson recently
joined her husband at Annapolis,
where he Is taking a postgraduate
course at the Naval academy.
L[YER COTTON BILL VOID
LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL SAYS
FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE
HOUGH.
Should Have Come From House.-Has
Tax Feature on Manner of Trans
action Instead of Action.
New York.--The cotton futures act
of August 18, 1914, known as the
Lever law, was declared unconstitu
tional by Federal District Judge
Hough because, as a revenue measure,
it originated in the senate instead of
the house of representatives as the
constitution required. The decision
was rendered in a test case brought
by Samuel T. Hubbard of the cotton
brokerage firm of Hubbard Brothers
and others to recover $1,000 paid un
der protest to John Z. Lowe, Jr., col
lector of internal revenue, under th(
provisions of the law. Judgment wFa
rendered in favor of the plaintiffs.
Judge Hough sustained the firsi
contention, but gave no finding on the
second. le said:"
"The bill known as the cotton fu
tures act ,approved August 18, 1914
never was and is not a law of the
United States and therefore as a
proposition it is no longer open tc
discussion.
"This is one of the legislative pro
jects which, to be a law must origi
nate in the lower house. The consti
tution provides that all bills for rev
enue must originate in the house o:
representatives.
BOSTON AMERICANS VICTORS.
Hooper's Homer in Ninth Gave Rec
Sox the World's Title.
National League Park, Philadelphia
-The Boston Americans a.re the
world's chlampions of 1915. The Red
Sox defeated the' Philadelphia Nation.
.als 'lhy a score of 5 to 4 here in a game
which was nil) andl tuck unltil the fin
isha. Tic~he the P'hibidelphlans took th<
oead oly to he tiled and H arry H-ooper
,11all IIliinched it for the American
Le*ague champions b~y smashng a
,homae run into the right center standa
Jt was Hlooper's baig lblac-k bludgeon
that put the Red Sox acrioss as win.
ners, the ('alfornuia y smashing ot
two home rius dur-ing thle game. Duf?
fy Lewis wasm another' hero for Iloston
his home run (clout. in the eighth inn
,lng sending in a run ahead of hini
and tiring the sc-ore whaen it looked
like a Phlailadelplbhia vi ctory.
TPhe gamens of the series resulted
as follows:
First Game
Rt. H., E
Boston-......00 000 0l0--1- 8 j
Philadelphia.. .000 100 02*---3 5
Second Game
R. H., E
Doston-..100 000 001-2 10 (
Phliladleilphia...000 010 000-1 3
I Third Game
Rt. Hi. Ej
- Boston--......00 100 001----' 6
PhJifladlphia. . 001 000 000-- 2
Fourth Game
,ftOIon .... ... H1. E
> Bs n---..0001 00*--2 g8
Philadelphia..-.000 000 010 ---1 7
Fifth Game
RI. H. E
floston..... ..011 000 021-5 10
P'hiladelphmia ..200 200 000----4 9
Baron Reading Honored.
WVashigton.--For the third time i1
the nmemory' of court officials, a foa
eign jurist 'had the honor of sittin
with the Supaceme Court of the Un
.ted( States. The visitor was Baro
Reading, Lord Chief Justice of Enj
.land, in America as chairman of th
Lion. So Ear as ls recalled here, th
distinction sh'own Baron Reading ha
been accorded only twice before-t
oy Colerdige, whieti Lord Chief Jul
din~1e -of .Eshhtland, in. 18gs, and I~r
; i B -ihLr Hih h
GERMS TRY1TO
LEAVE COUNTRY
SAILORS ON INTERNED STEAM
ERS TRY TO SECURE PASSAGE
TO ESCAPE.
ONE OF NUMBER ARRESTED
Others Supposed to Have Returned.
-Will Not Be Allowed to Leave
Interned Ships Hereafter.
Newport News, Va.--Several sail
ors from the German auxiliary cruis
er; Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, interned at the Nor
folk Navy Yard, attempted to secure'
passage on t'he Dutch freight steam
ers, Mennikendam and Maartensdijk
about to sail from this port for Rotter
dam. One of the men was arrested
aboard the Maartonsdijk at the re
quest of the captain and is being held
by the police for the commandant of
the navy yard. The others are sup
posed to have returned to their ships.
'T'lhe Dutch captains reported the in
cident to Collector of Customs Hamil
ton, who issued a statement saying
rigid precautions would be taken in
the future to prevent the interned
Germans from escaping.
On account of the disappearance of
six members of the crew of the Wil
helm who recently broke a leave of
absence granted them for a cruise in
a power yawl they had bought, has
resulted in an order from the navy
yard against the granting of any fur
ther shore liberay to the German
sailors.
Collector Hamilton's statement fol
lows:
"Attempts have been made by men
from the two interned German cruis
ers at the Norfolk Navy Yard to
secure passage to Rotterdam on the
Dutch steamer Mennikendam which
sailed from Newport News. The at
tempts were frustratcd by the com
mander of the Dutch steamer who re
ported that two m n in uniform from
the cruisers first sought passage to
.hotterdam on his ship and later a
third man in uniform from one of
the cruisers applied alone for pas
sage to Rotterdam. The -equests
were promptly denied and the men
departed, probably returning to their
ships. They were not of the six miss
ing officers.
FAVORS MERCHANT MARINE.
McAdoo Says it Should Be Govern
ment-Owned.
Kansas City, Mo.-A plea for a
navy which would make the United
States a:ble to face any other world
power and a $40,000,000 merchant ma
rine to be used as a naval auxiliary
in case of war was made by William
G. McAdoo Secretary of the Treasury
in an address before the Kansas City
Commercial Club.
The p'lan of the administr-ation, Mr.
McAdoo saId, is to appropriate $40.
000,000 or possibly $50,000,000 to be
put into a merchant marine to be used
in extending the commerce of the na
tion in times of peace .but so con
structed, equipped and manned to be
come Immediately the necessary na
val auxiliary.
"I believe," said Mr. McAdoo, "an
adequate merchant marine headed 'by
a commission composed of the secre
tary of commerce and the secretary
of the navy and three experienced
ibusiness men could make the United
States the domInant financial and In
dlustr-ial power- of the world. Also it
wvould disprove that time-wvorn theory
that merchant ships cannot be oper
atedl profltably under- American regis
try."
Carranza at Monterey.
Monterey, Mexlco.--General Oar
ranza arrived here from Tampico and
was accorded an enthusiastic wvel
- come. The "first chief" and his party
w~hich includes many high civil and
militar-y officials, will tour northern
Mexico.
George A. Gregory Dead.
Savannah, Ga.--George A. Gregory,
managing editor of The Savannah
Morning News, died here after an ill
ness of several weeks.
Sues Cunard Company.
Chiicago-Charging that as a result
of a conspiracy between Dudley Field
Malone, collector of the port at New
York, and Capt. U. T. Turner, master
of the Lusitania there was a large car
go of explosives in the hold of the
vessel Mrs. 'Sarah Lund of Chicago,
whose husband and father were
drowned b~y it~s sinking, sued the Cun
ardi Steamship Company, Limited, for
$40,000 damages for injuries sustained
herself in the catastrophe. Her comn
plaint alleges that she was deceived
into taking passage.
InvestIgate Lamar Case.
New York.--With the indiletment of
. Max Lynar also known as Count Max
b ynar 'Lotidon on a charge of Ibigamy,
. United States secret agents 'began in
Sinvestigation of the recent alleged ac
.tivfties of a man who under the name
of Lynar Is said to have confidentil
work in this country last Juno and
a July on 'behalf of the German and Aus
a tria~n governments, Their inveatiga
. tioni embraced a report that detailed
g plane of certain. fortificationas around
p. gei York harbor had been sent to
Berlin by two secrat -masngnat..
ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY
Ele Amrs Speryon ofth
members of the naval advisory board,
is among the leading inventors of elec
trical appliances, and was the first to
perfect practical apparatus for the
stabilization of ships and aeroplanes.
NAVAL BOARD PLAN FB.[T
FIFTEEN SHIPS, SUBMARINES,
CRUIS E RS, D ESTROYER S, ETC.,
ARE ON PROGRAM.
Understood That President Wilson
Approves Plans and Will Make
.Naval Program Party Measure.
Washington. - Fifteen to twenty
fighting ships of the dreadnought and
battlecruiser type with a proportion
ate number of seagoing submarines,
coast submarines, scout cruisers, de
stroyers and auxiliaries--enough to
make a new fleet--is contemplated by
Secretary Daniels for recommenda
tion as a five-year building program
for the United States Navy.
President Wilson and Secretary
Daniels has discussed informally the
needs of the navy and are agreed that
in order to be adequately prepared
for defense the present strength of the
fleet must be almost doubled in the
next flye years, with the addttion of
many of the latest .type of fast and
powerful fighting craft.
Details as to numbers have not yet
been : finally worked out,. but the idea
of fixing a ratio for a continuing pro
gram over a period of five years is
the basic principle upon which the
general board of -the navy and Secre
tar. Daniels are planning their recoi
nendations. Another conference be
tween the president and the secretary
will be held at which the total number
probably will be fixed,
The fe-year naval program when
completed would add in addition to
dreadnoughts and tattle cruisers near
ly 100 submarines, about 70 destroy
ers and several scout cruisers and
proportionate number of fuel and hos
pital ships,
An important part of the program,
too, will be a proposal for a large S
crease in personnel. Appropriation,
for at least 8,000 additional men will
be asked for the first year to make
up present defliencies, and an ade
uate inumber will be sought to man
the new ships built in the five-year
periot.
The total cost of the proposed pro
gram for the first year, according to
present plans, is estimated at nearly
$248,000,000 or about $100,000,000 in
crease over last year,
WORLD PEACE IS FANTASY.
Count Okuma Complains of Nations
and Individuals Who Exalt Themselves
San Francisco-Count Okuma, Jap
anese Premier, and Dr. Ng Peon
Chew, a Chinese editor of San Fran
cisco, told delegates to the National
Peace Congress that world peace was
yet a fantasy and will be until the
militaristic order of things is changed.
In a message to the congress Count
Okuma said t-here was no hope for
peace "as long as there exists nations
or individuals who believe or exalt
themselves as absolutely superior to
ethers and to assert that superiority
do not nlesitate to appeal to material
forces."
On behalf of the congress Dr. Ng
Peon Chew added to Count Okuma's
statement:
"There will be wars and more wars
just so long as there are two codes of
laws and two standards of morality,
one governing nations, the other in
dividuals."
American Massacres Renewed.
Wash ington.-Amennn massacres
in Asiatic Turkey have beeni renewed
with vigor since Bulgaria's entrance
into the war as Turkey's ally. This in
formation reached the state depart
ment from Ambassador Morgenthau
who stated that the majority of the
Armenians in Asiatic Turkey had lieen
killed. Although this- government
some time ago warned Turkey that
farther atrocIties against the Armen
ians would alienate the sympathies
of the American people, ?10 answer
has been received.
BIG DEMANDS ON .
FEDERAL TREASURY
ESTIMATE SHOWS LARGEST
EVER SUBMITTED BY CABINET
OFFICERS.
AN INCREASE FOR DEFENSE
May Issue Bonds as Estimates Call
For Considerably More Money
Than Is In Sight.
Washington.-The largest estimate
of government expenditures ever sub
mitted to a secretary of the treasury
of the United States in time of peace
-probaibly $1,240,000,000--was pre
sented for the next fiscal year as re
quired by law for discussion by con.
gressional committees in advance of
the regular session.
President Wilson and his cabinet
will examine the list in detail this
week.
An estimated increase for national
defense of about $150,000,000 over
last year, together with the cost of
new tasks imposed on the state de
partment and other government
branches because of the European
war, account for the increase, the
estimates for all departments except
ing state, war and navy remaining
practically the same.
If congress agrees to the Adminis
tration's program for strengthening
the army and navy, it will be obliged
to provide for additional revenue by
legislation or the executive branch of
tne government must issue bonds.
Although no estimate of receipts
for the fiscal year beginning July 1
1916, in which the increased expen
ditures will take effect, has been
made by Secretary McAdoo, officials
now are convinced they 'cannot count
upon more than $750,000,000 for the
12 months.
Congress will be asked to pass two
revenue measures, one extending the
emergency war tax, which expires
December 31 and the other provid
ing for retention of the duty on su
gar beyond next May, when it would
go on the free list. Passage of these
measures, however, would not in
crease the present revenues. With
both in effect at present there has
been a deficit of $35,000,000.
Additional force in the diplomatic
and consular service and at the state
department and extraordinary ex
penses a'broard in the work being done
by American embassies and legations,
will require an increase of about
$1,300,000 for the state department.
NO CHANGE IN COTTON BILL.
Mr. Lever Expects Supreme Court to
Sustain Bill-Originated in House.
New York.-Owing to the feeling
o uncertainty among the cotton trad
e-s as to the- attitude the New York
Cotton Exchange would take follow
ing the decision that the cotton fu
tures act was unconstitutional, the
Iboard of managers of the exchange is
sued the followi~ng statement:
"The board of managers does not
contemplate any changes in the by
laws or rules of the exchange which
would affect existing contracts."
No confirmation was obtained of
the report that the government in
tended to appeal from Ju~dge H~ough's
decision. In cotton circles it was gen
erally believedl the case would be ap
pealed.
Urge ReprIsals AgaInst Germany.
London.---The proposal of replying
to German air r-aids by "bombing his
sleeping towns as he bombs ours" re
ceived enthusiastic endorsement at a
mass-meting held here in the gr-eat
hall of the Cannon street hotel In the
financial district of Londlon. Lord
Willoughby de Broke and William
Joy-nson-Hlcks members of Parliament
werei the principal speakers at the
meetIng.
Submarines ArrIve at Honolulu,
H-onolul.-The submarines Kc-3, K.
4, K-7 and K8 which left San Fran
cisco October 3 for Pearl Hlarbor,
escorted by the United States cruIser
Maryland, the collier Nanshan, the
tug Iriqunois, and the torpedo boat de
stroyer Lawrence, arrived here.
German Officers Escape,
Norflok, Va.-Missing for a week
six warrant officers from the interned
Gor-man cruiser- Wilhelm are being
sought by ships at sea and up Chesa
peake Bay, Rtear Admiral Beatty
commanding the Norfolk Navy Yard
reportedl the men's absence to the
navy department after he had been
informed of the fact by Captain Thier
folder of the Kroniprinzt Wilhelm. The
missing men left the Wilhelm several
days ago. They had 16 hours' liberay,
but failed to return,
Martha Washington Will Returned.
Richmond, Va.-Gov. Henry C,
Stuart of Virginia ordered that the
will of 'Martha Washington, recently
retur-ned to the state by J. Pierpont
Morgan, be given into the custody of
Fairfax county, from which it was
stolen during the civil war. The
famous document was foranally de
livered to the chairman of the Fairfav
board of supervisors on Monday and
was returned to its former place Sin
the court house. Governor Stuari
acted under a ruling of Attorney Gen.
eral Pollard,
CLERK'S SALE
:.E
State of South Carolina,
County of Pickens.
In Court of Common Pleas.
Emma C. Bowen, Plaintiff,
against
John T. Bowen, et al., Defendants.
In pursuance of a decretal order
made in the above stated case by His
Honor Judge R. W. Memminger, dated
September 30, 1915, I will sell to the
highest bidder on salesday in Novem
ber, 1915, during the legal hours for
sale, at Pickens C. H., S. C., the fol
lowing described lot of land, to-wit:
All that piece, parcel or lot of land,
together with the buildings and im
provements thereon, lying and being
situate in the State and County afore
said in the town of Norris and known
as a part of the shop lot, containing
one and 31-100 acres, be the same
more or less; said lot fronts on one
side the street leading from the Nor
ris depot by the Bank of Norris to
Cateechee and adjoins the Southern
Railway and others and being the
same lot of land conveyed to H. B.
Bowen by Emma C. Bowen December
29, 1913.
Terms cash; purchaser to pay for
papers and stamps and for recording.
Should the purchaser or purchasers
fail to comply with the terms of sale
within five (5) days the said premises
will be resold on some subsequent
salesday at the risk of the former
purchaser or purchasers.
A. J. BOGGS,
Clerk of Court.
CLERK'S SALE.
State of South Carolina,
County of Pickens.
In Court of Common Pleas.
Strother & Phinney, Plaintiffs.
against
J. H. Vickery, Defendant.
In pursuance of a decretal order
made in tne above stated case by his
Honor R. W. Memminger, Presiding
Judge, and on file in the Clerk's office.
I will sell on salesday in November,
1915, during the legal hours for sale,
at Pickens C. H., S. C., all that piece,
parcel or tract of land in the County
of Pickens and State aforesaid, on
branches of Crow Creek waters of
Keowee River, containing ninety
three acres more or less; adjoining
lands of J. C. Alexander, H. B. Bowers,
J. I. Vickery, J. M. Vickery and oth
ers; has the shape, metes and bounds
set out on the plat made of the same
by W. R. Dalton, surveyor, Jan. 5th,
1910, to which plat reference is here
by made.
Terms of sale cash; purchaser or
purchasers to comply with the terms
of thia sale within five days from the
date of sale or I will readvertise and
resell said premises on the following
Salesday or some convenient salesday
thereafter at the risk of the former
purchaser or purchasers. Purchasers
to pay for all papers, stamps and re
cording same.
A. J. BOGGS,
Clerk or Court.
CLERK'S SALE.
State of South Carolina,
County of Pickens.
In Court of Common Pleas.4
Corena A. Freeman, et al., Plaintiff.
against
Edel D. Freemian, Defendant.
In pursuance of a decretal order
made in the above s-tated case by his
Honor Judge R. W. Memminger, dated
October 2, 1915, I will sell to the high
est biddler on salesday in November,
1915, during the legal hours for sale
at Pickens C. HI., S. C., the following
described tract of land, to-wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land, lying and being situate
in the State and County aforesaid in
Easley Township and adjoining lands
of ,J. Hf. Tiowen, tracks Nt. 3, 7 and 8
in the division of the real estate of
Jianms (. Freeman, deceased1, and con
taining~ thirty acres, umore 01' less, as
shown by deed recor-ded in Vol. "'K"
at page 275 of Register of Mense Con
veyance for Pickens County, S. *C.
Toerms cash; purchaser to pay for
papers and for recording same.
Should the purchaser or purchasers
fail to comply with the terms of sale
within one hour thme premises will be
resold at the risk of 'the former pur
chaser on 'the same or some subse-.
qiuent salesday thereafter. Purchasers
to pay for all papers, stamps and re
cording the same.
A. 3. BOGGS.
Clerk of Court,
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awaits youi among the
readers of the classified
columns.
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