Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm an? 1:011. ?CUTER WATCHMAN, EgUbUiittxl April, 1850. "Be Inn and Fear not?Eel all the enda Thon Alma*t at be thy Country's, Toy God'i aad Xratfc'a." IHK TK?E SOUTHRON, ?iMMMl Consolidated Aug. 8,1881. SUMTER, 8. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1917. Vol.XLV. Mo. 10. mm MEAT PROBLEM. FVlTOHMENT TO BE IMPOSED VTOn OEN. KORNILOt'F UN? CERTAIN. y Government la In a and Failure to Execute General Will Enrage Soldiery While It Muy Another Revolt Among Ilia Petrograd, Bept. 15.?Gen. Kornl aad Oen. Lokomsky, the com? mander on the northern front, who refused to take command of all tho armies after Goo. Kornlloff deposed, hove been arreated. The question of the probable fate of Oen. Kornlloff la exciting public There are indications that government must face serious rattles in the matter and ia seek hag a way out. An outstanding fea? ture of the conflict la the absence of bitter feeling and clamor for veng anee. Having re-established capital punishment, the government, if it Oen. Korlnoff. facea the re? ih of having executed common eoldlera for leaa aerloua offenses Against thta atands Oen. KornllorTs brilliant aervlces. his chivalrous per? sonal character and the fact that no bloodshed reeulted from his revolt. The social democrats and socla' revolution Lata atlll resist representa? tives of the constitutional democrats being In the new cabinet, but an agreement Is expected. lfEW CABINET FORMED. from Petrotrmd Hoys Political Ortala Mae Paseed. Petrograd. Bept. 16.?The Russian political crisis waa aettled after all night conferences. It laannounced by tho official newe agency. A new eabtoet waa formed and Ita com no will bo made public tomorrow. WAB UPON PINK WEEVIL. Every OoOiop Boll to Field Pink Pest Was Pound. ' IfusltTnftdh. Sep.. 14.?Pour gov efoment experts from the bureau of Ofltomeiogy of the lepartment of ag? riculture have been ordered to ID earns. Texaa, to aiailat In combatting the destructive fink boll weevil, which waa discovered at that point I a few daya ago. An announcement by the horticul? tural board, under which the experts will work, said that, federal field men at Hearne and State authorities aro carefully picking and burning every boll from the seven aero field of cot? ton In which the pink worm waa dis? covered. The stalks and all frag? ments of boll and seeds also will bo gathered and burned. The experts ordered to Texas, af? ter cooperating In the work at Hearne. will be assigned to the vicin? ity of ten cotton seed oil mills In Texas to which Mexican seed was shipped laat year and which may bo points of dlswe ml nation for the pink boll worm, which came from acresi the Mexican border. The horticultural board's statement sold the worm discovered at Heurno undoubtedly escaped from infested Mexican aeed before the board estab? lished a quarantine against the seed eome months ago. NEW ?OVERN?MENT PLANT. Hhtp Ysrtl Contract l>et for Newark, N. J. Washington. Sept. 14.?Construc? tion of a second government-owned ahlpbulldlng plant la provided for in contracts signed by the Emergency Fleet Corporation tonight, with thi Submarine Boat Corporation of MOW York. Tho yard will be built at Newark. N. J.. and will turn out fabricated steel, merchant vessels of t.OUv) tons carrying capacity. The contract call? for construction of fifty vessels, which with the plant will cost t37.60o.u00. Options were given for bullding moro vessels when the fifty ure completed. The Merchants1 Ship Building Company will get contracts for a plant at Chester, Pa. FLOOD IN t. OLDS BORO. North Carolina Town Sustains Be noms Damjure? No Lives I/ost. Golds bom. H, On Sept. 16.?An reeult of the greatest rulnfall In the history of Wayne county, tenement buuaea In the city were flooded SOdOf by three feet of water. Two bridges were wsahed sway when a stream paaalng through the lower end of the . tty flooded Ita banks No lives wer?? lost. The rain ceased m the after? noon. BRITISH DRIVE CHECKED. BERLIN REPORTS FAILURE OF NEW BRITISH OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS. Russians Turn on Germans Near Riga and Defeat Them in Severe Buttle?French Recapture Trench? es and Repulse Attack. The expected British attack in Flanders, followed an intense drum fire, according to the Berlin report, which says the British failed to gain headway. The London reports, however, do not mention the resump? tion of the offensive in this sector. The Russians on tho northern front still show a fighting spirit. They defeated tho Germans In a hat? tet along Pskoff Road on the Riga front and took three more towns. The French last night ejected the Germans from the trenches which the Teutons had won earlier in the day, north of Caurlerles Wood, in the Verdun region, and repulsed two surprise attacks in the Cham palgne, according to Paris reports. MUNITION SHIP SUNK. Minnchaha Submarine*! Off Coast of Ireland?Forty-three of Crew Lost. New York. Sept. .14.?Confirmation of the destruction ty a German sub? marine of the big Atlantic trans? port liner Mlnnehaha with a loss of life Was received by the line late to? day from its offices in England. The cable message said that 43 members of the crew perished and 110 were saved. Chief Officer Albany, C. A. Wills purser; Dr. J. E. Barrett, surgeon; throe engineers were among those who lost their lives. Capt. Frank Claret, the Mlnnehaha's command? er, and First Officer Pierce were saved. The cable message did not contain the date or circumstances of tin sinking. Unofficial reports of her loss, which became known Wednes? day said the Mlnnehaha was sunk a week ago today, a short distance off the coast of Ireland. She was struck Ii was said, near the engine room on the starboard side, the explosion killing members of the crew. Oth? ers were said to have drowned. Tlu vessel was carrying a huge cargo of munitions to England. BRITISH LOANS RECALLED. South is Concerned Over Money Borrowed on Lands. Washington, Sept. 14.?After a conference at the capltol today, u delegation of Southern senators and representatives will appear next Mon? day before Secretary McAdoo with respect to the maturing loans oi. Southern furm lands that are heio by British financial Interests. Tho master is of the utmost importance to the South, since it involves over $100.000,000 which is secured for the most part by mortgages on Southern farm lands. The loans were negotiated several years ago by the British financial in? terests, and they are willing that all of them shall be extended as they mature, but the British government last. January adopted un order in council that the loans be called up? on maturity and the money return? ed to the realm for war purposes. This order Ik now in effect and agents of the loan companies are in this country to make the collections or fereclose upon the landed security. Tbe seriousness of the situation is ob? vious. Owners of the Southern farm lands must lose them by foreclosure uiil* ss there is an extension of time since there is '.to chance for them i to rales over $100,000,000 to satisfy the claims. Secretary MeAdoo is anxious to lend assistance in the emergency. It is understood that he desires to trans? fer the loans to the federal land banks. The difficulty in this- Is that the legal limit of federal land bank loans is $10.000 and ubout 80 per eent. of the British loans exceed this amount. Secretary McAdoo has called a conference for Monday in the hope of working out some plan whereby tho situation may be relieved. It is pos? sible that congress may be called up? on to raise the federal land bank last limitation, or that the British government will bf urged to rescind its order In council to that exten? sions may be granted. Farmers of Greenwood county held ;< mass meeting last Friday and took Hteps looking to seenrs a Peders government cotton grader to be |o rated ut Greenwood. RUSSIAN RLPUBLIC PROCLAIMED REPUBLICAN FORM ADOPTED TO I'HKSMKVK SUFFICIENT HAR? MONY TO CONTINUE WAR. Five Men Control Nation?All Pow? er Placed in Hands of Kerensky ami Four Other Ministers. Petrograd, Saturday, Sept. 16. Russia has been proclaimed a repub? lic. The provisional government to? night issued the proclamation, dated September 14. The proclamation follows: "Gen. Korniloffs rebellion has been, quelled. But great is the confusion caused thereby, and again great is the danger threatening the fate of the fatherland and its freedom. "Holding it necessary to put an en.* to the external indeflniteness of the State's organisation* remembering the unanimous and rapturous ap? proval of the republican idea express? ed at the Moscow State conference, the provisional government declare * that the constitutional organization, according to which the Russian Stato is ruled, is a republican organization! and it hereby proclaims the Russian Republic. Kerensky. Minister of Justice roudni.)" The title minister and president, ture to the proclamation probublyjb fers to his position as presidentenf the ministry rather than the republic. Petrograd, Sept. 10.?The provis? ional government today announced that all the affairs of State had been entrusted to five members of the cabinet. The following official com? munication was issued: "Pending the definite legislation 0? a cabinet, and in view of the present extraordinary circumstances, all af? fairs of Stato have been entrusted %0 M. Kerensky, premier; M. Torostchen ki, minister of foreign affairs; Gen. Verkhovsky, minister of war; Ad? miral Verdervski, minister of marine? and M. Nikitin, minister of posts anc. telegraphs." Extremely Radical Program. 1 Petrograd, Sept. 10.?At a plenary session of the Petrograd Council oi Soldiers' and Workmen's Deputies to? day, which was attended by soldiers who were absent from the prcviou: meeting, the council repassed the Maxamillist resolutions adopted yes? terday, putting forward an extremely radical program demanding exclusion of all representatives of the proper? tied classes from power, abolition o private property, the immediate dec? laration of a democratic republic and other demands. The delegates also adopted a reso? lution setting forth that the tragic situation of the country made neces miry the constitution of a strong rev? olutionary power free from all com? promise with the counter-revolution ary bourgeoisc elements, and an? nouncing they had decided to con? voke immediately a general confer? ence of representatives of the whole organized democracy for the settle? ment of ^he question of constituting I a power capable of leading the coun? try until the time the constituent as? sembly assembles. The resolutions adds that until this conference is summoned the present government w\U remain in power, working in close union with the revo? lutionary democracy, which is invited to give energetic support. If neces sury, the resolution says, the govern? ment will act in close cooperation with a committee for the safety of the revolution. The people are called on to await patiently the summoning of the con? ference and abstain from arbitrary o. illegal acts. At the close of the sit? ting it was announced the conference would be held in Petrograd not later than September 25. The central committee of the ex? ecutive committee of the council and the executive committee of the pres? ent delegates at a Joint meeting last night by an overwhelming majority, approved Premier Kerensky's latest move, which has distinctly improved the prospects for the survival of the new cabinet of live. These two or? ganizations represent the workmen, soldiers and peasants all over the em? pire. M. Avskentieff. former minister of the interior, appealed to the meeting to help keep the government afloat, He said great dangers were Impend? ing4! Of which one was 'bat Cossacks were marching oh Taaritsy, em the Volga, with the aim of dividing South Russian from tho north und (Signed, "Minister and Presidi affixed to Premier Keteasky'-e" Five Rule Nation. REORGANIZATION OF RUSSIAN ARMY UNDER WAY. Army is Stronger1 on Front Than Ever lie fore und Germany is Mass? ing More Troops to Hold Uic lane. Washington, Sept. 17.?The ap? pointment of Gen. Alcxieff to the su? preme command of the Russian arm? ies will be followed by a reorganiza? tion in which the old generals will be replaced by new ones. The first defi? nite news of the reorganization re? ceived by the Russian embassy says the confidence of the troops is being restored and the situation is* rapidly clearing. The reports say if the trOOpi had luiOWO true conditions at j Petrograd the KornilofC revolt nev? er would have happened. It is re? ported that the military situation is improving and this is strengthened by statements that Germany has more men on the Russian front than ever before. DAMAGE ON COAST LINE. Railroad Sustains Seven Washouts in Twenty-five Miles?Traffic Delay? ed. I Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 16.?Re? ports from flooded territory in North Carolina tonight indicated that the waters were subsiding, revealing greater damage to roads, tridges-, cul? verts and. raiiroad tracks than was forecast yesterday. .No more lives have been lost, however, since three were reported drowned yesterday. The weather continues threatening, but there has been no heavy rain in 12 hours. The Atlantic Coast Line has no less than seven washouts between the 35th and 60th mile post on the Wh mington-Goldsboro branch and it I was announced that traffic between these cities will be discontinued for several days, through traffic being routed via Chadbourn and Elrod for main line connections, while local trains will operate for a distance of 35 miles out of Wilmington towards Goldsboro. Tho Atlantic & Yadkin division probably will be operated for traffic tomorrow. A wrecking train from Rocky Mount, attempting to reach the scene of a freight wreck, 45 miles from Wilmington, was wrecked today and J. B. Ericsson, engineer, and two ne? groes of Wilmington were slightl; tnjurcd. Wrecking trains* from Way* cross, Ga? and Florence, S. C, to? gether with availblc work train orowi and much material are being rushed to the breaks in the line. NO WIRELESS SERVICE. Argentina Forbids Use of German Station at Nauen. Buenos Ayres, Sept. 16.?The gov? ernment has withdrawn permission granted to a German wireless com? pany to attempt to receive wireless messages from the German station at Nauen. The German wireless service, con? sisting largely of menaces from the semi-otficial Overseas News Agency, which was sent to this country through the Sayville station before the entrance of the United States int. the war, is distributed from Nauen. It has been reported on several oc? casions since the United States and Germany severed relations that in? formation was being sent to Germany by wireless from South America. QUEBEC'S GREAT BRIDGE. Another Attempt to Raise* .Middle Span Made Today* Quebec. Sept. 17.?The third at? tempt to raise the middle span of the Quebec cantillver bridge which is the longest In the world, waa success? fully begun today. Accidents in at 'tempts in 1907 and 1916 cost eighty ! lour lives. depriving the north of bread. He added: "The provisional government has precise information that the Germans I are organizing an expendition in Pin- ( land. For these reasons, the former minister said, it was absolutely nec? essary to rally around the govern? ment. M. BhobeklCff, former minister Of j labor, also warned the meeting, say-; Ing: "Qen. Kaledines, (the Cossack lead- ; er) is coming here and if we nasall the provisional government from the opposite direction all is lost." The cabinet of live, however, mods to hold together only until September 26, when a new responsible ministry Will he approved. ON THE BATTLE FRONTS. AUSTRIAN'S BY DESPERATE RE? SISTANCE CHECK ITALIANS. Only Minor Actions on The Franco - Delgian Front?Germans Attack on tho Ardennes but Are Repulsed? Raiding Operations on British Front. Desperate resistance is still being Offered by Austrians to the Italian ad- j vancc on the Isonzo front. They j made four attempts to recapture j ground won by the Italians last week on the Bainizza plateau, but failed every time. The Franco-Belgian front con? tinues to develop only local actions. The Germans last night showed enterprise in a sector which recently has witnessed little activity, attacking French positions in the Ardennes. A lively engagement ended in a German defeat. Only raiding operations occurred along the British front. LUX BURG MATTER NOT SETTLED Argentine Minister Expects German Concessions. Buenos Ay res, Sept. l?.?Foreign Minister Pueyrredon informed the Associated Press today that he is sat? isfied the expulsion of Count Lux burg, the German minister to Argen? tina, has not closed the incident growing out of the telegrams the minister sent to Berlin through the Swedish legation here. The ministei said he would not grant the request of the senate to explain the situation at a secret session tomorrow as the government thinks it would be im? prudent to.discuss the matter as it now stands. The minister explained also that he discussed the recent German ne? gotiations at a supposed secret session j of the senate and that Count Lux burg cabled his remarks to Berlin a few days later. The minister declared that the Ar l gentine government intends to act j energetically but not precipitately in upholding the honor of the republic The Argentine government has sent cablegrams to Dr. T. L. Louis B. Mo : lina, the minister at Berlin, concern? ing the negotiations but no official j response has yet been received. J The Argentine government has not received a request from the German government for a safe conduct for Count Luxburg. The foreign minister said he be? lieved that Germany would make I concessions to retain the friendship of Argentina, but explained that friendship between the two countries will end unless the republic obtains the assurances and concessions desir? ed. An anti-German demonstration planned by foreign residents here was prohibited today by the govern? ment. HELD FOR TREASON. ? Editors of German Language Paper Indicted on Nine Counts. Philadelphia, Sept. 10.?Louis Werner, editor-in-chief, and Dr. Martin Darkow, managing editor of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, were in I dieted on nine counts for treason by the federal grand jury here Satur I day. Separate indictments on two counts, charging conspiracy and vio? lation of the espionage act were re? turned against Werner, Darkow, Pe? ter Schaefer, president; Herman Ivemke, business manager, and Paul Vogel, treasurer. The treason indictment refers to ' alleged un-American articles writ ten by Werner and Darkow and pub? lished in The Tageblatt. Tho maxi? mum penalty is deatli and the min? imum five years' imprisonment. The conspiracy charge is based on pub? lications of alleged false and distort Sd reports of domestic and foreign war news. The maximum penalty for this is 20 years' imprisonment and a $10,000 line. YELLOW PINE BO \T. Big Vessel Built of Southern Lumber Launched. New Orleans. Sept. 16. ? Announce? ment was made here tonight by the Southern Pine Association of the launching yesterday at Blidell, l*n.. of the freight ami passenger carrying steamer Maple. The Maple, con? structed almost entirely of Southern yellow pine, is said to be the largest passenger vessel ever built In th< South, being 190 feel long with a :: foot beam. she was built by the Slidell Shipbuilding Company nnd will be operated between Miami snd Jacksonville by the Coast Steamship Company. PACIFIC COAST YARDS TIED UP BY STRIKE, Mcclianics, Although Best Paid Workmen hi America, Demand Fifty Per Cent. Increase In Wages. San Francisco, Sept. 17.?Approxi? mately twenty-five thousand mechan? ic;, engaged in war emergency con? struction in Pacific coast cities struck today after their demand for a fifty per cent, wage increase was rejected. The walkout occurred in more than one hundred plants without a hitch, according to the report. WAIVE BOXER INDEMNITY. Powers Agree to Postpone China's Payments for Five Years, Say Re? ports From Peking. Peking, Monday, Sept. 10 (Delay edy)?Ministers of the entente pow? ers at Peking have advised the Chi I nese foreign office that their govern? ments are willing to waive the Boxer i indemnity payments for five years. [ Russia waives only one-third of the first portion of the indemnity, requir? ing the remainder because of her financial straits. The L'nited States, it is said, prob? ably will ratify the action of the en? tente nations, but will not waive its i portion of the Boxer indemnity which is i.^ccssary to maintain the Chinese students in America. THREE GERMANS ESCAPE. Leave Fort Oglethorpe During Ter? rific Rain Storm. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 16.?Tak ' ing advantage of a terrific rain storm, which visited this section, three Ger , mans?Carl Hentchell, Gustav Hart wig and Paul Niebann?escaped from the prison camp at Fort Oglethorpe some time last night. This is the see on time Ha^wig has escaped in the I past few weeks. Carl Hentchell is 33 years old, 5 feet, 3 inches high, fair complexion, light brown hair and eyes and weighs 135 pounds. Gustav Hartwig, aged 26, 5 feet, 10 Inches, fair, blue eyes, brown hair, dresyed in gray suit. Paul Xeibann, aged 27, 5 feet, 8 inches, fair, brown eyes, dressed in civilian clothes. BIG POTATO SURPLUS. Yrooman Points Out Necessity of Housing Spuds. Washington, Sept. 16.?With a po? tato crop at least 100,000,000 bush? els larger than the country needs for its table, Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, said tonight the United States would be guilty of an inexcusable military blunder if it did not provide the warehouses nec? essary to make use of this surplus in such a way as to release products of e jual food value to the army and the allies. The initiative. Mr. Vrooman said, must come largely from local associations of business men and farmers and the government is ready to help with the advice of its experts and with plans for building new stor? age houses-. TO WORK FOR EDISON. Dillon Boy to Be Employed on Sub? marine Destroyer. Dillon, Sept. 15.?Dillon county will be represented in the gigantic plan which the great inventor, Thos. A Edison, has on foot to end the war. Rod Carmichael. son of Mrs. Agnes Carmichael, has entered the Edison factory at Orange. X. J., to work in secrecy without any com? munication with the outside world until the great engine of destruction is completed. For this* confinement the employees are to receive a salary of $15 a day and clothing. When Mr. Carmichael enters the Edison factory his friends and relatives here will hear nothing from him until the grsat work is finished. FEELING IN SWEDEN. Liberals Hold Mass Meeting and Con? demn I'ro-iivnnan Intrigue. Stockholm. Sept. 17.?A great Lib? eral mass meeting unanimously adopted a resolution regretting that ths government is not in a position to deny that it passed Cipher messages id Berlin which it did not under? stand and that such PS re less acts could happen. The resolution also vigor? ously demanded that the government take steps to demonstrate to Um Swedish people its determination to maintain absolute neutrality.