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MUT VICTORY WOW.
ITALIANS CAFTIJfcK GOKlfcIA, THK
ORKAT AUSTRIAN HTBONG
HOLD. I
"Me I* Mm Greatest Victory Won by '
Hint* They Euter Wi
Um Road to Tricet,
Hone, Aug. 9.?Italian* rapture
Qertsle. It Is officially announced. This,
la tee greeieat , victory won by the ,
ItiHeat during the war. Ten thous- i
prison* rn were taken.
MTPIXINH RAID ENGLAND.
and Children Killed end |
Injured.
London, Aug. t.?Several Zeppelins
raided the east coast of England
about dawn, dropping bombs and
ktlllag tiuee women and one child.
Fourteen were Injured. No military
teenage was done. Anti-air iraft guns
drove the Invaders od There was an
swesbi raid on the south
ooset erf Scotland, but no
Is isventloned In reports.
<*at*MANfl RETAKE THIALMONT.
Assents* sea Verden Front
be Gessnsaa Victory.
Parts. Aug. t.?The Oermm* after
several powerful assaults and a violent
cannonade reoecupy Thtaumonc work
and are holding It, according to the
oflklal announcement. The Ourmnns
launched two strong offensive move
meat* during the night on the Ver?
dun and Komme fronts. The llemme
attacks were repulsed.
BATTIJC AT YPRE&
Offensive la West
Idutdon. Aug. t.?The Germans are <
Stsj on the offensive In West Flan-j
1 and have made a number of at-1
ftfcskg on the Ypras British salient, but
tJsW sseulu? break down. It Is official -
On the So rums front
Pealerei. The
Uner Aaro whlsh has
sis days was blown* up in
the North sea by a warship end all on
board are bettered to have perished,
Berlin reports by wireless. Wreckage
of the liner was found at Christiana.
The liner was a British steamer. The
nnnbattleship's nationality la unknown.
ADVANCING IN GALICIA.
ate Clewing lu on Austrian
Base.
Petrograd, Aug. 9.?The Russians in
Gellcla are advancing northward
along the Kolomea railroad and are
now only ten miles from Stanisluu, the
Austrian's great military base. The
Austrian* and Germans who fe 1 back
are trying to hold the city, but their
attacks were repulsed.
Make Gains.
Parts, Aug. ?.?The Germans pene
trete the allies' advanced positions on
the Lahens-Chaulnes railroad, but were
driven out. The French gain ground
at Floury.
BAMBERG INSURANCE COMPANY.
New South Fire Forward to Do Bus?
iness la This State.
Bamberg. Aug. 8.?The New South
Fire Insursnce company has Just been
organised with the home office at
Bsmbevg. The capital of the com?
pany Is $60.000 and a surplus of
$60,000. The company will do u gen?
eral fire Insurance business t hi ough?
ts* the State of Houth Carolina. Tho
officers sre: H M. Graham, president;
C. F. Hlser. vice president; W. D.
Coleman. secretary, and J. E. Nnwson.
treasurer, and all are bankers an 1
practical Insurance men. The under?
writing and agency departments will
be under the supervision of the presi?
dent. Fifty agencies alr? i.ly havo
been sstsbllahcd, and others bo
opened soon. It Is the purpose at
the company to double or tr plo It*
capital and surplus when the old line
companies reenter the Stute. The
right Is reserved In the charter and
by-laws to move the home othee to
some other point if destud.
There seems to he mo few last es in
ths campslgn that the cundldutes for
the legislature sre having a. hard
time to find enough to talk about to
use up the time allotted tri in If
they are put to It for l**ues w iy not >
take a shot nt equal suffrage and
votes for wonvn. Tbe women ran t
i
vots In the approaching primary, but
the representatives of the Sou .h Car?
olina Kqual Suffrage league will bei
asking the members of the legislature'
to vote for a suffrage amendment at
ths nest session of the general assem?
bly.
TO WBITMTE STBKE \
It AlLHOAD MANA<>KKS ASK THAT
DUT KKENCKS HE LAID HK
*X>RE FEDKHAL
BOARD.
L?lior .Leaders Decline to Accept
Proposition Xmv und Suggest Fur- j
tlit r Conferences, Say In?; Agreement
Should be Reached Without Media?
tion.
New York, Aug. 9.?Tho big rail- j
roads are willing to arbitrate their
differences with their employes. BUsha
Lee, chairman of the railroad commit?
tee read a liter from the railroad
manager** to the leaders of tfie four,
brotherhoods, asking that their dif-.
ferences be laid before the federal
j board of mediation and conciliation for !
j settlement. The leaders of the men
I decline W accept the proposition now,
saying they prefer to hold further
conferences first. The letter was read
as the labor leaders and railroad rep?
resentatives went into conference. A.
R Oarretson, the spokesman for the
j labor men say the men and their em?
ployers should get together without
mediation. The conference adjourns
until they can hear from the federal
board of .mediation.
The Infantile paralysis epidemic
breaks all records again today. There
were 57 deaths today and 183 now
I cases.
BOARD TO HANDLE FTTND&
j Governor Will Tills Week Appohnt
Flood Relief Commission,?Money
m Hand Inadequate.
Columbia, Aug. 9.?Oov. Manning
' will this week appoint a commission
of five members to handle the fund
for the flood sufferers in South Caro?
lina. Thousands of farmers have
been left practically destittue by the
flood waters, according to an appeal
Issued Monday from the governor's of?
fice. (The federal government has
made an appropriation for the suffer?
ers lDj this Htato. hut the fund is not
PlUtoX BREAKERS CAPTURED.
Wholesale Escape* at Penitentiary
arc Checked.
Columbia, Aug. 9.?Having made a
rope of blankets and sheets, four pris?
oners climbed down 60 feet from tho
top of the main building at the State
penitentiary at 2:15 o'clock yesterday
morning and attempted to evade the
sentry. The guard on duty fired at
the men just us they reached the
ground und broke up what the oltl
cers at the State prison believe was a
general movement among the prison?
ers to escape. Kight other prisoners
who had gone to the roof were taken
and returned to their cells.
Howard Clark, white, serving a life
term for murder, who Is believed to
be the leader of the movement, was
the first prisoner to be captured after
reaching the ground. Ten minutes
later Tom Amnions, serving a ten
year term for manslaughter, was
seised. The hunt for the other two
prisoners, Clarence l>avis, serving a
ten year sentence for attempted crimi?
nal assult, and Luther Smith, serv?
ing a two year sentence for larceny of
live stock, was kept up until G o'clock
i yesterday .morning, when the two
men were found hiding In one of the
buildings in the yard,
j The men on tho top tier of the
main building were not locked in
I
j their cells Monday night. A door
leading to the roof was broken open.
Practically all of the blankets on the
?tier were used in making the rope.
The four convicts, It is thought, ex?
pected to overpower the guard when
they reached the ground and then
the getaway would have been easy.
I! The negro man arrested here yes?
terday fur cattle stealing in Clarendon
county, und later seriously wounded
when attempting to escape, on the way
jto Manning* answers the description in
some rsspsctl of the neg ro who is
wanted in Columbia f?r MIHni ? negro
S/SJSJIM and concealing hsr mutilated
body in a trunk. He Is of the same
general description as the Columbia
j fugitive and has the gold front tooth
that was given as the distinguishing
mark of the man wanted. The Co?
lumbia authorities were notified and if
they think it is worth while they will
send ? RMS. to identity the negro
who Is bring heM in the Manning jail
on the charge of cow stealing.
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Torrens land registration coinmls
NtOftS have been appointed in some of
the counties of this State, under the
provisions of the Torrens law which
went Into effect July 1st. Sumter coun?
ty should have a commission to pass
upon applications for Torrens land
rsglstratlon certificates.
FI/miONCK VOTKHS TURN ot-T '
FHKKIA'?XO GREAT KX
TIIUSIASM.
Slight Inclination to Play Favorites--:
Three or the Candidates Glton.'
Flowers.
Florence, A\\y\. 8.- Farm lands o?
the Pee Dee arc as soggy as river I
swamps und us plows must stand idly j
by voters of Florence county turned j
aside from contemplation of crop!
losses to the diversion of hearing the
candidates of the State campaign par?
ty. As many us 1,000 voters attended
the meeting with little show of en?
thusiasm and slight inclination to pUy
favorites. Guv. Manning, R. A. Coop
ler and Cole L, Blease each received a
largo bunch of flowers,
j In arguments the candidates struck
their customary stride, following
i closely the season old ingredients, in
compounding body politic health prc
: script ions. The administration of Gev.
1 Manning was a favored target for pot
{shooting, Cole L. Bleuse again char?
acterizing it as the most lawless aid
extravagant since 1876.
Mr. Blease was the first speaker and
.Immediately launched Into a bitter *t
'tack upon (*ov. Manning, charging
|that his farewell speech as cbg^
niander-ln-chlef of the two regiments
of the National Guard when they we're
about to start for the border was
political ruther than Inspired by
patriotism or duty. The governor
would have been howled down at the
camp, the speaker said, if Col. Springs
hadn't threatened courtmartial in ad?
vance. From the 2,000 boys gone jto
the border Mr. Blease expects two
thirds as many votes, provided these
are "not purloined by the officers,"
he said. He had come directly from
the Piedmont and from information
garnered there he predicted there
would be no second race "If the J^ee
Dee gives me the votes It has n ?ie
past." ,1
H. A. Cooper made Ills usual speech,
of all the people. "Any man who goes
into offlec to be the governor of his
friends only and to punish his ene?
mies Is not fit to hold office," the Lau
rens county candidate told the peo
I pie. Criminals^ he declared, would
serve their sentences. He could not
! promise tax reduction, but would at?
tempt to give 100 cents for the dollar.
The only inspiring element J. M.
DesChumps has discovered in the cam?
paign is the *'rag chewing" feature, he
jsald. He has contemplated the estab?
lishment of a paper manufacturing
j plant, and he would engage the can
jdidates for the tine art of munching
! the rags for the paper tissue. "If you
i don't believe South Carolina has been
i held up to ridicule, sneered at, cussed
and scoffed at, go 1,000 miles beyond
4
your border and find out what the
other fellow says." Enough seeds of
anarchy, he said, had been sown in
South Carolina to require' 50 years of
statesmanship to eliminate.
John T. Duncan spoke next.
Gov. Manning was the last speaker,
but the crowd had waited patiently in
I a sweltering sun to hear him, and
? many crowed Into the court house
i entrance to speak to him when he
, had finished.
He had kept his promises of two
years ago, he told the people. He re
| viewed the acts of his administration
'relative to the enforcement of law,
the passage of progressive legislation
and of efforts and results to give an
economical administration. The over?
shadowing issue In this campaign was
law enforcement. Pi ogress had been
I mads in this direction and he reviewed
the Charleston situation, where from
a ^tatc of brazen violation of law a
strong sentiment for enforcement has
jcrystalizcd. No true bills were re
!turned and no conviction had for
liquor selling prior to his ad mi nisi ra?
tion, he said. His instructions to his
constables were to raid the gambling
dens and, blind tiger Joints three times
daily and once every hour if necessary.
By this relentless practice liquor scll
Ing bad been robbed of its profits, "for
rent." signs were up at some of the
stands and the good people were sus?
taining him. "They hissed me in Char?
leston the other day, and they had a
cause," the governor concluded. Just
! so long as he is governor, he pledged,
they will continue to have cause to
hiss.
Gov. Manning was asked to detlno
his position on the eight hour day
problem, now being agitated by freight
trainmen over the country. The gov?
ernor said he thought the eight hour
basis both right and just, hut ho re?
garded the matter as one for national
regulation rather than State.
John R, Sweuringen, State superin?
tendent of education, was present and
made a brief speech. Other candidates
ALLIES WINNING VICTORIES.
RUSSIANS AND ITALIANS GAIN
1M POUT ANT POSIT K )NS.
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Victories Of King Victor Emmanuel's
Men Greater Than Hoped for in
London. :
London, Aug. 9.?Before echoes!
have died on the mutual congratula?
tions of the enteilte allied sovereigns
I 1
on the au$piciOUfl opening of the third |
(year of the war, comes news of fur- ,
! ther Russian successes and of a splen- ,
did victory for the Italians on the ,
Isonzo front.
The surprising success of the Ital?
ians, who in two days have captured j
j 10,000 prisoners, suggests that in ad
I dition to transferring Gen. Koeves,
j an able Austrian general, from the
|Trentino front to Galieia, the Aus
Itrians also ventured to transfer troops
from the Isonzo to the Russian front \
in an endeavor to stem the Russian
advance.
Gen. Cadorna's victory has caused j
London great rejoicing as one of;
: the most promising successes in the
new allied operations and a demon?
stration of the constantly growing
j power of the allied offensive on all
j fronts. j
Russia's new victories south of the
Dniester and southwest of the Stanis
lau-Kolomea railway offered equal
satisfaction and the prompt admission
1n the Berlin official statement of the
\ retirement of the Austro-Germans
south of the Dniester is taken here to
indicate that the Russian victory in
this quarter is weightier than yet an?
nounced by the Russian official dis?
patches. According to an unofficial
report tho evacuation of Lemberg, the
Galician capital, has already been or?
dered.
In the meantime a new combined
offensive by the allies has begun on
the Western front, which is expected
to lead to the severest lighting. Gulle
mont, around which heavy lighting is
in progress, is one of the strong posi?
tions in tho German second system of
w^toy tne Germans, Ss was Pozleres,
with the utmost stubbornness.
PRESIDENT SELECTS MEDIATORS
Mexican Conference Will Begin Within
a Few Days.
Washington, Aug. 9.?The White
House announces that President Wil?
son has selected the men for the Mex?
ican conference commission. The
names will be given out as soon as
the men accept. The conference will
, then begin and all matters in dispute
will be discussed. Recommendations
will be made, but neither Mexico nor
America will be bound by the acts of
i
the conference until their acts have
been formally ratified. It is believed,
however, that both governments will
ratify any agreements reached by the
conferences. Acting Secretary of
j State Polk ollicially announces that a
I complete agreement has been reached
iand conference is empowered to deal
{with all questions.
j DRUGGISTS' MUTUAL ENTERS
CAROLINA.
Indemnity Exchange of St. Louis is Li?
censed by State Insurance Depart?
ment.
Columbia, Aug. 9.?The Druggists*
J Indemnity exchange of .St. Louis was
yesterday licensed to do business on
(the mutual plan. Best's Insurance
Report says of it:
"It operates among retail druggists
and its business is under the super?
vision of an advisory committee, con?
sisting: of live members who are
elected annually by the subscribers ol
the exchange. .Since organization this
exchange has shown a large saving
for its members of 41 per cent, of the
tariff rates."
EN ROUTE TO BORDER.
! Stimter Militiamen Send Farewell
Message to Home Folks.
Denmark, Aug. 9.?The 3d battalion,
2nd South Carolina Infantry, with
Major J. w. Bradford In charge, 1 04
Btyx at 9 a. M. sharp for the Texas
border. This is the first section of the
2nd regiment. Company L is travel?
ing in this section. All the boys are
in line trim and bid farewell to the
home folks. Maj. J, W. Bradford
heard were: W. Hanks Dove and Geo.
W. Wlghtman, secretary of State; S.
T. ("aider and D. W. McLaurin, State
treasurer; Albert S. Fant. O. McDufhe
Hampton, W. H. Kely, \V. T. Thrower
and .lames Cansler, for railroad com?
missioner; B, C. L. Adamsand Andrew
J. Bethea, lieutenant governor, J. W.
McCoWn, State senator from Florence
county, presided.
THE CHILD LABOR UV.
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RENATE ADOPTS HOUSE BILL
STRIKING THROUGH I XT Kit -
STATE COMMERCE
CLAUSE.
_
Tillman Assails Owners of Mills
Thinks Act I in onMiditionnl bat
Feels Tempted to Vota for it to Kc
huke Selfishness of Class of Capi?
talists in South.
Washington, Aug. 8.?The senate
late today passed the. bill to prevent
interstate commerce in prodWts of
child labor by a vote of 52 to 12. The
measure, which already had passed the
house, was brought to a vote in the
senate on the insistence of President j
Wilson after the Democratic senate
caucus once had decided to defer its
^consideration until next December.
Opposition to the measure had come
chietly from Southern cotton mill
owners, and the group of Southern |
Democrats who voted against it had
fought it in caucus and maintained
their opposition during the senate dc
j bate on the ground that the regula?
tion proposed is unconstitutional and
! would interfere with the rights of the
! States. Kleven Democrats from the
i South?Senators Swanson and Mar
jtin, Virginia; Underwood, Alabama;
jVardaman, Mississippi; James and
j Beckham, Kentucky; Culberson and
|8heppard, Texas; Ransdell, Louisiana;
Robinson, Arkansas, and Shields,
Tennessee?voted for it.
Senators Broussard, Louisiana;
[Clarke, Arkansas; Gore and Owen,
! Oklahoma, and Ix?a, Tenessee, were
absent and did not vote.
Senators who voted against the bill
were: Bankhead, Alabama; Bryand
and Fletcher, Florida; Overman and
Simmons, North Carolina; Smith and
Tillman, South Carolina; Smith and
Harwick, Ceorgia; Williams, Missis?
sippi (Democrats,) and Oliver and
Penroso, Pennsylvania (Republicans).
In order to expedite consideration of
the measure in conference senate con?
ferees were appointed immediately af
tr^the final vote, The only an^n<\iu.c?L.
adopted would*" extend the bHi's pro?
visions to bar all products of estab?
lishments employing children from in?
terstate commerce. The house meas?
ure was directed only against those cn
which child labor actually had been
j employed. i
Senator Borah did not offer the
I amendment he had drawn attaching
I the immigration bill as a rider in or?
der to force action on it at this ses?
sion.
Amendments to make the prohibi?
tion apply only to children under 11
(who could not read or write, to make
'lit apply to children on farms, and to
I postpone its effective date for two
j years were voted down.
The bill as passed would prohibit
interstate commerce In the product of
any mine or quarry, in which children
Under 16 years of age have been em?
ployed or In the product of any mill,
cannery,. workshop, factory or manu?
facturing establishment in which chil?
dren under 14 have been employed,
[or in which children between 14 and.
j 16 have been employed more thai
eight hours a day more than six days
a week, before 6 o'clock in the morn?
ing \ or later than 7 o'clock in the
evening. It would take effct one year
after enactment.
] During the closing hours of debate
today Senator Tillman denounced
j Southern cotton mill owners opposing
: the bill, and said that while he be
I
i lieved it unconstitutional he was
tempted to support it because of the
sellishness of the interests lighting it.
i lie also declared congress was too
{much Influenced by the attitude of la
I bor interests.
"I have been shocked," said the
South Carolina senator, "to see men
i
in South Carolina?rich, intelligent,
well educated men?who were willing
to swell their dividends at the expense
;of little children. The veil Of sophis?
try in their letters could not hide their
heartlcssness. Their plea, stripped of
verbiage, Is 'let the children toil that
we may live In luxury.' and yet we
wonder at the spread of socialism and
the increasing hostility of labor to?
wards capital."
Servility of present day vote seek?
ers to organize labor, he added, pre?
sented great u problem as did the
attitude of politicians -<? years ago to
concent rated wealth.
"The congress of the United Slates
trinities every time the labor unions
frown/' he continued. 'Capital, with
its brutal, ironical disregard for hu?
manity stinted the conflict and labor
in self defense, organised for the
struggle.
"We have ceased to legislate in the
way we Know to be right and have
become ponderers to public opinion or
rather we are making a cowardly sur?
render to those who vote and demand
these things. 1 protest that in time I
STRIKE r '?OH MILLS.
NEARLY EE HUNDRED QUIT
' i? A POSITIONS.
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Humor* sj At Two i -a rue Factories in
Ami' Will be Involved in Walk?
out ^
A c? ,?n, Aug. 8.?Following the
reft ^- f\ the part of the management
of *y '.luck cotton mills to grant a
rt . for a 10 per cent, increase of
wab. throughout the mills, the 285
employes of these mills walked out in
concerted action at I o'clock this af?
ternoon. The machinery in all de?
partments became idle three minutes
later.
; About 4 0 days ago the management
received a request from the Gluck
Mills union of the United Textile
Workers of America asking for the in?
crease in wages. At the time the re?
quest was made the management
stated to the COW mitten that the re?
quest would not be granted. This
morning the committee waited on the
management to ascertain whether the
request would be granted and the
management answered that its de?
cision, which was announced when
the request was submitted, was final.
This inlormation was passed to all the
operatives and promptly at 3 o'clock
they l>egan leaving their posts. The
Gluck mills manufactures lawn and
h?S a mill village of 050 people. It is
located four miles south of this city.
The walkout was not attended bv
any demonstration, nor have there
been any demonstrations this after?
noon or tonight. Most of the resi?
dents of the mill village gathered to?
night to hear the county candidates, a
campaign meeting to be held in the
village tonight having been arranged
for several days ago. The people of
the village are in good humor and no
trouble is looked for.
It is stated that John Golden, presi?
dent of the United Textile Workers of
America, is expected to arrive In 4J?
derson this week to acquaint himself
with local labor union conditions
other large cotton
outside the city limtis, is being heft.rd
here tonight. Labor conditions St those
two mills have been unsettled for the
last month or so. The operatives at
these mills have also requested their
respective managements for a 10 per
cent, increase in wages. Development*
at these two mills are expected with?
in the next few days. An outdoor
meeting of the union members of
these mills was held within the city
limits tonight and several labor
speeches were made.
r union conditions.
tton mills, located ywK
TOMOGRAPH STRIKE IMMINENT.
City Telegraphers Demand
Eight Hour Day and More Pay.
Chicago, Aug. 8.?W. B. Roberts,
i president of the Kansas City local of
Telegraphers' I'nion announces that
'? many of the city unions agree to de
'mand an eight hour day and higher
pay. A telegraphers' strike is threat?
ened.
TO PASS CHILD LABOR BILL.
Senate Will Vote on Rill Today or
Tomorrow.
j Washington, Aug. 8.?The child la?
bor hill will'be brought to a vote in
the senate today or tomorrow. Its
passage is assured only fifteen votes
I being against ft, the leaders say. It
Is expected it will be signed by Presi
i
dent Wilson in a week as the house is
...
sure to accept the bill.
a law will be passed making it un?
lawful for anything to enter inter?
state commerce that is not desired by
vote of labor unions.
"I believe in organized labor be?
cause the alliance of big business and
the Republican party made necessary
some power to combat it but unless
labor is restrained by real leaders
and persuaded to act justly instead
of being fondled and slobbered over
by vote seekers and demagogues as is
now being done, 1 shudder to think
w hat may happen."
The vote followed a heated passage
between Senator Hard wick and Sena?
tor Lippitt, Ithode Island, hinrjelf
largely Interested In New England
cotton mills. Senator Lippitt disput?
ed an assertiaon by Senator Hardwick
that commercial rivalry bad inspired
much of the activity in favor of the
lull and was supported by Senators
Weeks and Penross in the assertion
thai none of the large cotton manu
facti rers among their constituents
hati tried to influence then to work
for ttu> bill.
Senator Hardwick tonight declared
the measure would be tested In the
courts and predicted that it would be
held unconstitutional by the supreme
court.