The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 16, 1914, Image 5
GREAT BATTLE AT HOI
Germans Assume Control and Plan to
Drive Off Besieging Russians.
Forces o! Dual Alliance Meet With Success in Galicia and
Poland, While Auatiiana Are Repulsed With Great Loss
by Servians-Turks Defeat Russians at Batoum?Report?
ed That Dresden Has Interned at Santa Cruz, Argentine
While Transport and Cruiser Have Been Sent to Bottom
Reports Show Little Change in West?Kaiser Much Bet?
ter and Confers With Chancellor.
Crown Prince lulled to Berlin.
Paris. Dec. 11.?The Echoude Par?
le itates that Crown Prince Frederick
William was urgently recalled from
the German army headquarters In
Belgium to Berlin Tuesday night.
A Bee-Saw Conflict.
Paris. Dee. 11.?The official state?
ment this arternoon says: Strengthen?
ed by reinforcements, in the attempt
to pierce the allies' battle line in the
region of Igsres. the Germans have as
turned a fierce offensive Three at?
tacks were repulsed but In another
the Germans captured one of the al
Itea' trenches. The French are mak?
ing satisfactory progres at Arras ano
JuYtneourt In the Argonnee the
French are poshing forward with
their trenches. The French also con?
tinue to advance In I ax Pretre forest.
South- of Thann the French have cap?
tured the rmll-oad station at Aspach.
Never before in the history of the
world has there been massed such an
enormous amount of heavy artillery as
tftere is now along the three hun?
dred mile battle front from the Vos
ges to the North sea. Oven ten thous?
and big guns, exclusive of light artil?
lery and flying squadrons of field guns
are thundering death and destruction
at the enemy day and night.
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Austrian* Have Winning Streak.
Vienna. (Official), Dec. 11.?Up to
the present the Austrlans have taken
ten thousand Russian prisoners in
Western Gallcla, but stubborn fighting
continues, tn Poland we are steadily
repulsing the enemy. At some points
the Russians have been driven back
'? mile*.
Cerm. roc lias** Gains.
. AI). Dec. 11.?The
uo-Umuu uo-.c n.ade no progress in
Flandwre but eait and west of the
Argosjnss* the aJUes' artillery positions
havs been attacked with good results.
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German Submarine Sunk.
London. Dec. 11.?A news dispatch
from Dover states that in the attack
by German submarine? yesterday one
submarine was sunk, possibly more.
The attack was repulsed and the Ger?
man flotlla was pursued by British de?
stroyers. It is believed that there were
six submarines in the flotilla. No
damage was done, but Dover was
thrown Into a panic.
British Capture Staden.
Rotterdam. Deo. 11.? A dispatch
tVom'Slule states that the British j
t.oops have captured the town of
ntadtV fourteen miles north of Ypres.
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he rugal?* to Relieve Cracow.
Petrograd. Dec. 11.?The Germans
have teumcil complete control of the
Austflau and Herman armies south of
Crni'Sw, wikre the bl(gest battle of
the wnr*sterns to be developing. Ene?
my Is trying to hurl the Russians
back aval relieve fcracow where the
Russfses ar* t!'ab1?ehlng u siege. A
Russb n lajf] nvun.j g long sweep
towar ? V. UM The w?? ither Is bitter
coli, v* ith heg > n ?w. The Russians
Inflict- I s on the German
and / ir'rlsn nV.iiry |g the Lososluu
vall< y a1 I on hg II M I* rth of Cracow.
Ge nn ins V In.ilnr at I.owlc/.
Berlin. Dee. ll.??Floeoe hand to
hand ft. hung bus been tu progress at
Low tea. Poland, for fourteen hours.
Ths Oermans are in complete control
of the outskirts of the city. Following
ths German successes north of the
Vistula the Oermans are dosing in OH
Warsaw.
Dresden Klespes I outrun Ion.
Montevideo. Dec. 11.?Ths German
* ruissr Dresden Is reported to have
taken refuge In the Argentine port of
Msnta Cms. badly damaged und will
pnd'Ahly be interned until the end of
rhstwar.
Kaiser Improwiiu Rapidly.
Amsterdam. l>ec. 11.?A news dis?
patch from Berlin states that the
Kaiser's condition bus so greatly im?
proved that he gSJ permitted to ton?
fer with the imperial shonosllOf I ?
night. His fever his disappeai e?l .im.I
?h?s bfonrblul rur^i rU bus impio\o.|
RefjorHs that he was suffering with
pneu?S)onlu uro untrue.
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* Turks Score VI? lor).
Coestauiinopb , peg li. a Biiilaii
force which was trying to relieve
Batoum has been reprised by Turkish
troops.
Sen bins Mop up Austria us.
Paris. Dec. 11.?A news dispatch
fron Niah states that the Austrian
lossos in Servia are nearly sixty thou?
sand. The Servians are again within
five miles of Be I grace. They expect
to recapture the capital.
German Transport Sunk.
Valparaiso, Dec. 11 ?A merchant
ship arriving at Concepcion last night
reported that they had intercepted a
wireless meesage stating that the Ger?
man transport Prinseitel Frederlch
had been sunk by a Japanese warship.
German Cruiser Strikes Mine.
Peris, Dee. IS.?The German cruis?
er Frederich Kart is reported sunk In
the Baltic sea by a mine and most of
the crew drowned. The ship carried
five hundred and fifty men. (Oin
cial.)
CONSTERNATION AT DOVER AT
HASH ACT OF GERMANS.
Fusillade of Dig Guns Firing Greets
Olio Diver Seen Coming in Under
Cover of Darkness?six Seem Later.
Dover, England, Dec. 10 (via Lon-'
don).?Dover was thrown into excite?
ment; today by the announcement that
the Germans early this morning at?
tempted a submarine attack on the
harbor works and the fleet at anchor
in the harbor.
Trie night was daik and a heavy
rain and hase made searchlight work
difficult. The forts were put on alert
abou 4 o'clock by the appearance off
the harbor entrance of an unknown
steamer which refused to stop until a
shot was fired across her bow. This
vesse then retired. She is believed to
have been the tender of the subma-'
rlnes.
Half an hour later a single sub?
marine was sighted and one of the
hea\y guns in the harbor tired at her. !
This submarine, which evidently was
the advance scout, disappeared but at
0.30 ihe observers sighted what they
believed to be a fleet of about six sev?
eral miles out in the channel.
Thn channel forts commenced fir?
ing in the direction of the supposed
submarines and kept it up for almost
half an hour. At the same time a tor?
pedo boat destroyed flotilla put to sea.
whore It remained all day.
I^arge crowds gathered on the water
front In the early morning hours and
watched the searchlights and the ar
tiller> Pre. When they saw no re?
sults of the shelling many persons ex?
pressed the opinion that it was a
false alarm.
There is no official confirmation
that German submarines wore seen.
NEW LAW ON WAREHOUSEMEN.
Itoqulres That Surety Company Bond*
Shall h?? Given Secretary of State.
Colombia. Dec. 11.?H. M. McOown.
seoretat y o| State, has called attention
to a special act passed at the extra
session of the general assembly pro?
viding for bonds fof public warehouse?
men. Few people in the State know
anything about the law, it BOO ma,"
? aid ihe secretary.
The seetion referred le follows:
"Kvery person or Corporation so au?
thorized under the preceding section
(section 2"?N2. codi? of 1911 to he
come a public warehouseman shall
gtYe bond in a surety company an
th"ii/ (l to d<> business In South Car?
olina, in an amount equal to 10 per
cent. Of the estimated value of the
goods for which said wart houseman
will provide storage, such bond to he
eoni'ilionc?l for the faPhful perform?
ance of the duties of a public w?re?
houeomaii and to be given to the sec?
retary of State, who shall < ause II
copy Of the same to be tiled With the
cleik ?f conti In each county in which
tuen warehouseman proj>oscs t? main*
i.in. a warehouse."
The secretary said that few in
tjuirtea bad been made concerning; the
i tu law and that no bonds have been
i ',,]. The old law. he said, required
the bonds to be Mod with the clerks
ol court.
Johnson ?'ity. Tenn.. I>?'<. II.?The
large let manufacturing plant was
burned tins morning, lorn hundred
thousand dollars,
MVUCKIN COMMENTS ON PE
MANI) IOK MERCHANT
VI SSKLS.
lnglMi Paper Says Staple CoiUil
He Sent to MOMVim Over Paeilic
< M oan.
Columbia, Dec. II.?-Commenting
yesterday on the pressing need for
ships to carry cotton to Eh ropean
ports, John j. McLaurin, state cotton
e/grehouse commissioner, su.u that
the war was forcing the development
of new functions of government.
"The need for ships to expert cot?
ton was evldeneed last Wednesday
In the New Orleans exchange when
(brokers bid $15 a bale freight lu Bit*
j men," said Mr. McLaurin. "i aisoj
, notice in The Textile Mercury, pub-j
lished |n Manchester. England that
ICotton Is selling in Russia at 81 cents
j a pound. The article says that Amer?
ican cotton can be shipped to Moscow
(by way of Siberia. The great demand
now is for ships to carry cotton to
Germany. There are many German
merchant ships tied up in American
ports. It was reported in New York
I
that a proposition had been s ibmit- J
ted by Harnnrd X. Haker of Haiti-:
more to President Wilson looking to
the purchase of these ships.
"Mr. Uakcr's idea is that, i.istead
of being purchased by the govern-1
merit, money be loaned by the govern- j
ment to private parties with which j
the ships would be bought," con- j
tinned Mr. McLaurin. "Er gland,
would be sure to object to thin, .is the'
German government owns a part in-j
terest in these ships. The only prac- \
tical plan is for the United States
government to buy these ships itself,
as the bill now before congresi pro?
vides. Congress is also about to pro?
vide marine insurance. Certainly this j
war is developing new functions of
government on every hand. It Is but
a step from the buying of shii?s to {
carry cotton and the insuring of it by
congross to purchasing the cotton it?
self."
STIR IN WALTERBORO.
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Town is Kxcited by Report of Yegg- J
men In Vicinity.
Walterboro. Dec. 10.?Quite a sen
ration was stirred up last night in
Walterboro when one John ! -and,
alius Walter Williums, was arrested
here. He told of a gang of supposed
yeggmen who had established them?
selves near Walterboro and were mak?
ing plans to rob the banks o' the
town. He being a stranger here him?
self, the story was given some ere- j
dence and heavy watches were main?
tained last night.
This morning he told practically
the same story, still maintaining that
there are yeggmen near Walterboro;
planning g large .aid. He connects1
with yeggmen a man who came here
some time ugo with the avowed pur-1
pose of opening a moving picture!
show but who has since disappeared.
Land's story of himself is interest- j
ing. He says that he served a three
year sentence in the penitentiary be- j
ginning in 1910, for being a pick?
pocket In Columbht, and this is veri
lled by the penitentiary officials by
long distance. He came here seeking;
employment and began to run a!
pressing club. He claims to have rel-!
atives in Savannah and Williston.
Although a search has been made,
the alleged yeggmen have not been
found us yet and, with no ehr.rges
pending here against l^und, he will I
be released on condition that he leave I
town at once
SVNRAY SCHOOL MASS MEETING.
The regular annual mass meetir g of
Sunday schools was held yesterday
afternoon at the Presbyterian Church
and the annual offering for the poor
taken up. The former officers ?von
re-olected with Miss Gibson, the city j
nurse, added to the distributing oom- j
mittee. It was decided on account of
the inclement weather and the very
small attendance to contiue the meet?
ing until next Sunday afternoon so
that others who had been prevented
from attending yesterday, might be
given an opportunity of coming 1??
the meeting. Another meeting Will
therefore be held at the Presbyterian
Church on next Sunday afternoon at
4 o'clock.
The annual collection with dona?
tions from various lodges and private
subscriptions amounted to more ban
$4S0. Messrs. W. S. Jones and Rat
tow Walsh were elected as t hail nu n
of ihe distributing committee, with
Mr. A. M. Broughtoti in his capacity
as treasurer and secretary and Miss
Gibson in an advisory capacity. The
names of the committee from th< va?
ions Sunday schools were announced
and other routine business attended
to.
Mr. H. L, McCoy of the It road
Street Methodist Church presided and
Rev, J. B. Wilson made the annual
address, showing how much more
"blessed it is to give than to receive."
The program Wll*? e\eeuted as pre vi
OUSl) announced
MURK THAN THAN SIXTEEN MIL?
LION BALEs RAISED THIS
YEAR.
United states will Have IS,Mt,0(MJ
Bales of Llllt and ?00.000 of Linters
From toil Oop.
Washington, Dee. 10.?The United
States this year has produced the
greatest crop of cotton in its history.
Mora than 16.000.000 hales, or 15,
966,000 bales of lint cotton and Unt?
er cotton, unoificially estimated at
from 600,000 to 650,000 bales, consti?
tute the crop.
Last year 14,3-,2,1167 bales including
linters were produced and in the pre?
vious record year, 1911, the produc?
tion was 16,250,276 bales, including
linters.
The production of lint is estimated
at 7,637,113,000 pounds or 600,000
pounds more than 1911.
While the production exceeds any
crop ever grown, its value will he far
less and smaller than any other year
during the past five.
Based on the average price of 6.8
cents a pound on December 1, the lint
is worth $519,323,684, while last year
it was valued at $887,160.000.
More exact information as to the
?lie of this year's cotton crop was'
given today when the department ot
agriculture in its final estimate an?
nounced the total production would I
amount to 15,966,000 bales of 500!
pounds, gross weight, exclusive of I
linters. This compares with 14,156,-j
496 bales last year and 14.795.367:
bales, including linters; 13*703,4211
bales in 1912 and 14.312,745. includ
Inf Unter*; and 15.692,701 bales inj
the record year 1911 and 16,250,276)
including linters.
The average total production, ex- j
elusive of linters for five years, 1908-1
12, was 1S.SS0.297 bales. The pro-!
duction of linters is about 600,000 i
bales annually.
The final official figures giving the
exact size of this year's crop will be
issued by the census bureau next
March when complete statistics from
the ginneries have been compiled.
While this year's crop is a lar^e j
one its value will fall far below that
of last year, because of the price of
cotton. Lust year's crop, a record In
point of value, was worth in the ag- j
gregate $1,04 3,760,000, the value of
the lint being $887,160.000 and of
the cotton seed $156,600,000.
The estimated production. With]
comparisons, by States follows:
Average
States 1914. 1913. 1908-1912
Virginia. 24,000 23,490 18.305
N. Cs>ro.. 050.000 792.545 779.037
S. C. 1,500.000 1.377.S14 1,252,981 |
Georgia .2,650.000 2.316,601 2,009,514'
Florida. 75,000 58.695 62.239
Ala. . ..1,690,000 1.495,485 1,324,624
Miss.; . .1,275,000 1.310,743 1.250.361
Lou. . .. 360.000 443.821 345,17*
Texas. . ..4,560,000 3,944,970 3,704,668
Ark. 1.040,000 1.072.846 859.793
Tenn.. . . 145,000 379.471 329.869
Missouri. . 7"?,000 67,105 63,83b
Okla.1,250,000 840 387 840,422
California 37,000 .
Other Sts. . 15,000 32,513 8.610
WILL PROTECT AMERICANS.
Washington. Dec. 11.?Secretary of |
State Bryan today received a cable- j
gram from Provisional President
Gutlerez of Mexico announcing: "Ac?
tion has been taken to prevent further
violation of the rights of Americans
at Naco by Mexican* across the bor?
der."
HELP FOR THE RAILROADS.
Washington, Dec. II.?-A report be?
lieved to be reliable, sttaes that the
Interstate Commerce Commission is
writing an opinion granting the east?
ern railroads a five per cent, increase
in freight rates.
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In a Few Days j
Members of our 1>14 Savings Club, will re- ?
ceive checks for $5U (and interest) and up. ?
They only paid a dollar a week. It's an +
easy way to save. Come and join for 1915, f
NOW -TO-DAY, while you think of it. t
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YOU PAY IX ONLY FIFTY WEEKS.
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OVER $17,151.^
Will Be Paid to Members of
The Bank oi Sumter's
1914 Xmas Savings Club
Wednesday, Dec. 16th.
?In 1913 we had 431 members.
?In 1914 we had 999 members.
?How many shall we have in the
Larger and Better Club
for 1915
WHICH IS NOW FORMING?
?SMALL PAYMENTS.
?NO FEES.
?NO FINES.
?NO TROUBLE.
Come in and see us about it; First payment
makes you a member. A large check just be?
fore Christmas is like finding money.
The Bank of Sumter
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DECEMBER 7, 1914
I The National Bank qf \
South Carolina
RESOURCES $800,000,00
4? compounded quarterly in our Savings Dept.
5$ on Time Certificates of Deposit.
Strong, conservative, progressive. ,
We appreciate our old friends, and are contin?
ually seeking new ones. We want your ac?
count.
* C. G. Rowland, Pres. G. L. Warren, Cashier
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THIS BANK
Is a Member of the Federal Reserve Banking
System of the United States.
TI1K soundness and ability of the bank and the CHARACTER OF
THE M EN behind that hank are investigated before the United
stales Government will allow a bank to become a member of
the Federal Reserve System. Once a member of the Federal Resene
System a hank is one of the VAST ARMY of responsible hanks which
STAND TOGETHER for each other's protection; and the U. s. Gov?
ernment at Washington, |>. c., through its representatives on each
Federal Reserve Hank Hoard supervises and assists all member hanks
Your money is absolutely sale in our hank and YOU CAN GET IT
WHEN VOF WANT IT.
The First National Bank
OF SUMTER.
Capital, Surplus and Profits Nearly - - $230,t00.60
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1 New Corn Mill
I have installed an electrically driven corn
mill of the most improved pattern, and am ?
pre wed to do grinding for the public. y
I his mill turns out meal and grits of the y
best quality. [\
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