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TfJK it'MTKR W M ("11 MAN, h stabl Consolidated Aur. 2,1 BULGARIANS TALK PEACE. Ai.kNTS SKFK TO IKVKN IN TFNTF. T Kit MS. Fear I hm Germany and Austria Hungary Majr Nut Prove Any Ton fem 0 >penhag*-n. Oet 19.?While Km P- r< i- William and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria have been exchanging as sura noes at Sofia of the unshaka >le loyally of Bulgaria and Germany to each other. Bulgarian agents ubroa I haw* been endeavoring to get Into touch with the entente powers on to ? subject of p*?ace and Fubsouuent v. 1st son*. Their efforts declared to be Inspired by apprehrnslon that ejOssssssD/ and Austria-Hungary ma not Hm oversealous In defending Bul satrta's part to escape from revolving In I a exclusively German orbit aft?*c the war. . if The Assoclsted Press (BOSrespond* ent s able to report that a Bulgarian representative recently obtalnd an opportunltv In a neutral European rapt a I to lay before th? entente gov? ernment the special desires of 111 eotaetry with regard to a peace set? tlement and In a one sided conf- r ence explained Bulgaria's aspiration to regain an Independent political status ss soon as the war was con eluded and resume cordial relations with the entente powers. As the cits? was presented In short, the central Karopea Idea of an economic league tn which Bulgaria would play a comparatively minor role does not ap? peal to the Bulgarian mind. Attempts were being made to get before the public in America and in the entente countries a defense of Mulfarlan pretension to Macedonia and the Pobrmlja. the suggestion, even being openly made from I he I-'ulgsrtsn side that Hervia should be compensated with Austrian territory from Bosnia and Hersegovlna. The correspondent has of hi CO heard of considerable ill feeling be* tW?>#a the Bulgarians rnd their al? lies Complaints are made that Bul? garian divisions were compelled to rnareh long distances on foot while fa sored German troops rolled past thet to trains. The Oerman attempt to malntui \ control of Bulgaria's principal coal district hss cauxed much unfriend! feeling. CtrUMlTF.s M \TH sFMI M I Will HMevenn Will Not Mf In E*rt? trie Choir?Three othc ftsjgg of llesaeejcy. Columbia. Oct. no.?Oot Manning yesterday commute! to lit" Imprison? ment the sentence of electrocution passed upon Will Stevens of Green? wood county, convicted cf murder in March, 191S. Judge Ernest Moore, who tried the csse. rec imwiefgled commutation, and Sol.? t: ??? Cooper also said that the penalty of death Si usually not imposed In nr-h ettOOl The petition for communtatioi .v is also signed by members of lIts tUTf, Stevens waw convicted of Rtlt.*l*g another negro In a general negro brawl, in which all pu.Ps -veri drinking The governor i pries ?' i this case In July that It inVh* go be fore the board of pardons, which met fa October snd aiso recommended Commutation of the sentence of lif" Imprisonment A parole during good behavior was also issued to Rk hniond Willi.uns, a sour,* negro bov. who was convicted hi \nd. iKon QSSJSJJ in 1111 of burg lurv and larceny and sentenced to ssver? years. Both Judge DoVgfO ami farmer Solicitor Itnnhum fmi ommend ? parole, which u is concurred .11 Iv be board of pardons v. Manning also commuted th ? aces Im pox. 1 upon M A W'llsoa end M. II. Wilson, who were convle' eil in oconee County in March. l?1T, i i di.Mk; .ml d dtvenng liiiuor. ?0 ' I' ll t be .?.?uteie .? would be eonciH r??nt with Ihe federal sentence. Hill <-p.oss \M\s PACKV.F.S. I wry soldier ill Home nod \hrnnd win Igggetei ? Girt. W'anhlngton. Ort H Every Amer noldier at hoi.i abroad will i <? rehe a Mi Cross Xmi* package ol the value of shout one dollar and a half. \ Ml 01 Bit Wi ll President Wilson Hols Vahle mhkIhv OSjOfJlSJI -Htll. Washington. Oct. 2*> Prrxiderit V Loot by pro? l unation declared Sun o \ Metob. r llth n- a day of prav ? for the sjsjeoess i<: AanSfhOg arm: I? aC o. da nee with .? resolution o. 1 Mu-d April, 1850. "Be foal a 881. SU THE jBlljl HORROR. COLLEGE PRESIDENT TELLS Of nOKE1! SUFFERING. Work of Invaders In France ami Rcl gium Described us Atrocious?' freutm? nt of Women. NSfJ York, Oct. 21.?President Ly? man Powell of flobart College, who has just returned from a tour of England and Franca where lie was sent to investigate conditions as* a representative of the President's As? sociation of Colleges and Universi? ties of the United States, in an ad? dress here today declared French villages aad towns recently evacuat? ed by German troops have been ked beyond description. "The need of an effective army to protect America from such at rod or. s conquest as I have Just seen in Northern France and of such air raids as I have witnessed in and about London now is the most Im? perative thing in the history of tlv country," he said. "The army must g<? 'over there* and strike before the a i my from 'over there' gets an oppor tunltv to eome over heie, or we ma? lest. "If you people here could see hi!, of what I have seen in two months ? if you could see with jour own eyes the terrible conditions?for only a day?the question in your nJndsthen would not be how much money you could spend for Liberty bonds or con? tribute to the Ked Cross, but how little you could live on so that you could give all the rest you have to these causes." Dr. Powell described the fate that befell the town of Chauny, In the Alsne dcpirtment of France The I t tie city, he said, was o' 10,000 In? habitants and almost from the time of its founding, in 1664, had been a center of glass manufacture, came into the hands of the Teutons in tMe coursa of their Invasion, but last June or July they evacuated It. "The Germans were not center.' with the misery they already ha i caused," he said. "First they dli mantled the glass factories, then they herded all the young men for service of one sort or another behind |h< lines. Then they lined up the young wo? men, according to rank In beauty. The highest official chose the fairest as his servant, the next highest otll ccrs made their selection and Anally the common soldiers took their pick. At tin- tin e 1 arrived in Chauny only Iff of the original lo.ooo Inhabitant were left and these were old men and women." SIXTY-SEVEN LOST. Casualty List of Antilles Forwarded by Gen. Pershing. ?Washington. Oct. 22j?Sixty-seven lives were lost when the Antilles went down by a German torpedo. The official casualty list, forwarded by <ien. Pershing, also shows one unac? counted for and one hundred and seventy survivors. Among the dead was Neptoln Robin of Savannah. SCHOOL CHILDREN STRIKE. Three New York Schools In Revolt Against Long Sessions. New York, Oct. 22.?Unless they nceive assurar ce that the lengthened school day will he abolished ten thousand pupils in three schools threaten to strike. A committee of boys and girls from each school have arranged to confer with the board ot education. After them the teachers will protest. sENOTOlt HASTING KILLED. Wisconsin Man Accidentally Sliot by II is Orot her. Mi'waukee. Wis., Oct. II.?-United States S?m.nor Paul o. Hasting of Wisconsin died in a farm house near Rush Uike, W is.. late tonight as tin result of wounds accidental); Inflict ed upon him with a shotgun by his Bf6)6her, Gustave. while hunting dm ks today. I Senator Hasting recently returned to his home at Mayville after tin sloss of the aatrs session of oongresd a* ho re he was one of the leading sup porters of the administration's wn" program. with his brother he had gone on hunting expedition to Rush Like aim the two wen in a boat when the ic ? xlent o. i 'tri ed He had Sighted a of ducks ami sailed for hi brother la lira and -it ths dis? barge oi the shotgun he rose slight Iv. re retted the mil charge at the gun in Ms back Hs was rashed lo tu i nn, house where all efforts t?> savi Ina life were unavailing. ml Fear not?Let an Uta en da Thou AI MTER, 8. 0., WEDNES MEXICAN SILVER BOUGHT. V.MTKl) STATES GOVERNMENT PURCHASES SIX MILLION PESOS. Those Coins Will be Turned Into Mint to Make Quarters and Dimes. Washington, Oct. 19.?Six million Mexican silver pesos have been bought by the treasury department at 88 1-4 c ?nts an ounce for minting into half dollars, diir.es and ?.uarters. Th" treaaiiry acted when faced with the necessity of buying silver for coinage at steadily increasing prices, which at their height brought the value of the metal dangerously close to the minted value. Now the price of silver in this- coun? try has dropped precipitately. The swift collapse, from $1 *i0 to S5 cents per ounce, in three Woolcs has result? ed in an investigation to determine whether the market had been manip? ulated. The high prices recently pre? vailing are regarded as whody un? warranted by Official! here. This purchase of Mexican dollars, the largest by the government of the minted silver coin of another country ever recorded, places the United States in possesion of a sufficient <,ijan I I tity of silver to run the mints for two i or three months and withdraws flora the sliver market here the largest single buyer. Negotiations have been proceeding between the representatives of ghe Carraitaa government and Director Bauer Of the mint for some time gjast for the big sale. It is understood that the Mexican dollars are to be deliver? ed soon and that federal reserve board officials have .indicated tjteir willingness to permit the exportation to Mexico of approximately $6,00olpeq . in gold as payment. In return the CarramraV'government Is understood to have lifted Jts virtual embargo on the exportation to this (country of silver and copper. The net result of the transaction as regarded by ofllcials here is that the danger of par silver for mintage has been averted, that Mexico will be bj a stronger position tinanei^Jly (than before, that the somewhat strained flnnncial relations between the two countries will be eased per? ceptibly and that Mexican copper and silver, needed here, will be available In the future. The imposition by the American government placing an embargo on the exportation of silver also con? tributed largely to the sudden lower I Ing of silver prices in the domestic market. For some time past the gov? ernment has been compelled to bt y silver sparingly in the face of a soar? ing market. From approximately 52 cents an ounce in 1914, silver quota? tions went steadily upward until they touched 90 cents about two months ago. I Thereafter quotations began to evince symptoms of an utterly de? ranged market. Prices advanced spas ! modically until the top was- reached at ILII, At that time the market quotation was only 13 3-4 cents below the minted value per ounce. Had the minted value been reached it would have been without precedent and might have resulted in the cessation of silver coinage at a time when such coinage was Imperatively needed. NO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Allies Have Not Sought the Enemy's Terms From the Vatican, it Is Stat? ed. London, Oct. 18.? Replying to a question in the house of commons to? day, Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, denied that negotiations for terms of peace had taken place with the Vatican or any of its agents or with any other religious organization. Just previous to this, Lord Robert had been asked whether the British government intended to send any re? ply to Pope lienedict's peace note. His response was a request that no? tice be given of the question. It had not been officially announc? ed, be added, that Great Britain has adopted as Its own the reply sent by the United States. "The cleur and powerful reply of President Wilson." explained Lord Robert, "was not the result of any consultation of the allies ami I do not propose to comment on it in reply to the question." SOLDIERS HI V HONRS. Americans In France subscribe For Several Million or Liberty Bomig. American Training Camp, France Oet. 20?Several million dollars have been subscribed for Liberty loa i bonds by Amsrloan soldiers, There Is the keenest rivalry between tin units to get the largest amount. ms't at be thy Country's, Thy God's ? DAY, OCTOBER 24, 192 AMERICAN TRANSPORT SUNK. GERMAIN U-BOAT SENDS SEVEN? TY TO THEIR DEATH. The Reality or War Brought Home to Americans?Army ami Navy Olli OCn and ship's Captain Among Sur? vivors. Washington, Oct. 19.?The Ameri-j can army transport Antilles, home- j ! ward hound under convoy, was tor i I pedoed and sunk by a German Hub-1 marine in the war sons on Wednes? day. About 70 men are missing and probably lost. I The army and navy oflicers aboard and the ship's master were among the ? 1G7 survivors. Tho missing are mem? bers* of the crew, three civilian cngi | i neers, some enlisted men of the navy and 10 of 13 soldiers returning home ; for various reasons. Neither the sub? marine nor the torpedo was seen and the transport, hit square amidships, ; sank In five minuter. This tragedy of the sea, the first j in which an American ship engaged I in war duty has been lost, is the first of its magnitude to bring home to the people of the United States the I rigors of the war in which they have I engaged against Germany. It carric? the largest casualty list of the war s > j far of American lives and marks the lust success of der man submarine at? tacks on American transports. That the loss of life was not j greater is due to the sufeguards with which the navy has surrounded the transport service and the <;uick rescue work of tho convoying warships. Secretary Daniels announced the disaster tonight in a statement baaed upon a brief dispatch from Vice Ad? miral Sims which gave few details and did not say whether it was a da\ or night attack. An accurate list 01 Uie missing can not be issued until General Pershing reports the names II of the army men on the vessel and the list of tho merchant crew. Pol , lowing is the announcement: ! "The department is in receipt of a dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims which s-tates that the steamship An? tilles, an army transport, was tor ? pedoed on October 17 while returning to this country from foreign service This vessel was under convoy of American patrol vessels at the time "The torpedo which struck the An? tilles was not seen, nor was the sub? marine which fired it. The torped hit abreast of the engine room bulk? head and the ship sank within five minutes. One hundred and sixty seven persons out of about 2'M on board the Antilles were saved. AbOU. 70 men are missing. All the naval officers and officers- of the army who were on board at the time were saved, as were the officers of the ship, witli the exception of the following: Walker, third engtner officer; Boyle, junior engineer olficer, und O'Rourke. junior engineer officer. The following enlisted naval personnel were lost: in L. Kinzey, seaman, second class, next of kin, Thomas M. Kiuzey, father. I Water Valley, Miss.; J. W. Hunt, sea? man, second class, next of kin, Isaac jllunt, father, Mountain Grove, Mo., R. F. D. No. 2, Box 44; C. It. Ausburn. radio electrician, first class, next oi kin, R. Ausburn, brother, 2800 Louis? iana Avenue, New Orleans, La., and j H. F. Watson, radio electrician, third j class, next of kin, Mrs. W. L. Seger. mother, Rutland, Mass. There were about 83 of the army enlisted person I nel on board of whom 18 were saved. The names of the army j enlisted personnel and of the mer? chant crew of the ship can not be giv I en until the muster roll in France or those on board has been consulted. As soon as the department is in re? ceipt of further details concerning the casualties they will be made pub lie Immediately." j Upon receipt of the cablegram from Admiral Sims, the government kept i its promise not to withhold bad newi from the public. The issuance of the statement was delayed only until the j navy could telegraph to the famlllei of the men known to have been lost I I Secretary Daniels carried word ol the loss of the Antilles to the White House when he went there late in tin day with Admiral Mayo, who mad< his report to President Wilson on hi visit to England at tho direction Of the president, The news added toth gravity of the hour that the secretary ami Admiral sfayo spent In confer ence with the president. Quick upon the wave of sorrow o1 the loss of the transport came feeling of distinct relief because She had met her fate homeward bound and not on the way over with troops The only soldiers on board were re? turning to the hospital or on special assignment. Mad the full com pie men! of the transport been aboard, the loss undoubtedly would have been md TruXM'*." THE TRU1 17._ LIBERTY 5 jB5T THIRD WEEK ENDS WITH TiU> MILLION SUBSCRIBED. > _____ West ami South Lagging?Not Com? ing to the support of Government as They Should. Washington, Oct. 20.?With excel? lent prospects the third week of the Liberty loan campaign is closing to? night, with two billion subscribed, treasury officials announced. At the same time it is stated that over a Wide area extending from the middle west south to Texas and east to the Atlantic general apathy prevails- and ibis condition is "causing the great : est concern." In the eastern part of the South bad weather and delayed cotton sales are blamed for the poor showing. American aviators in France are ' dropping Liberty loan posters over the German lines. The Btimter Young People's Union has been postpond unti: Sunday, Oc : tober 2Sth. written in hundreds, as she WQS Struck in the most vulnerable tpot and went under so swiftly that few could have I escaped. I Officials are confident that those who ? survived owe their lives to the care j ful attention given by the navy de ( partment to the equipping of trans? ports with lifeboats and life rafts. It l& a fixed rule that enough boats I and rafts shall be carried to afford ia place for every man aboard, even though the ship keel over and put half her boats out of commission. I The loss of the ship's engineer of? ficers indicates the probability that no one of the engine and (ire room fore? on duty escaped. Probably most of them died In the blast of the explo? sion of the torpedo, whicn tore its way into the engine room compart? ments. The heavy loss among the army enlisted men indicated can not be ac ! counted for until further details come In. Probably they and the navy men I were In their quarters below and could not make their way on deck before the ship took her final plunge. The army, navy and ship's officers and the others who were rescued probably were on deck or ir cabins from which a step took them to the deck and a chance for their lives. Lacking details of the attack, be? yond the fact that the submarine was unseen and the first warning to those aboard the Antilles came with the shock of the explosion of the tor? pedo, many theories were current as to how the u-boat crept through the destroyer screen, did its work and es? caped unchallenged. A majority of the officers who would comment thought the transport and her convoying patrols had run di? rectly over a lurking submarine which saw them coming, calculated the dis? tance and launched her deadly tor? pedo without ever showing more than her periscope. They regard it as probable that the u-boat commander picked his place, lay in wait below the [surface until his microphone told him t^e patrols had passed and the trans? port was upon him, then shot his per? iscope above water only long enough to sight and fire before he ducked back to safety. Any attempt to locate the submarine was made impossible by the necesity of rescuing the survivors. The vessel must have been virtually torn in half by the explosion to have gone down in the time she did. Probably the attack was made well out at sea. It took two days for the news to reach Washington and the dispatch shows the time that must have elapsed before definite word could reach Admiral Sims. The sur? vivors are believed to be already safe ashore somewhere in France or Eng? land. So far as known no high officers of the army or navy were due to return on the Antilles. There is no definite information on that point, however, as only Genoral Perching knows who was sent home on the ship. The re? ports so far received show merely that ot number of army officers ami S3 enlisted men of the army were aboard. Evidently Admiral Sims rushed hti tidings off before he com? municated with General Perching. The loss- of the Antilles murks the first reduction of the transport fleet that has been operating, a very con* slderable number of American troops workmen and others- involved In the prosecution of the war have been car? ried safely to Prance and England ind the unsuccessful attack on lit - list contlngenl is the only recorded previous Instance where the u-boal lave succeeded even In catching sight 3f the vessel. : 80OTHRO1T, Eatabltebed lux * I CM Vol. XLV. No. ,20. WILL HUME SUSPECTS. COXt.RESSMAX HEFLIN SAYS HR IS READY TO ( ALL NA11KS. Meml>crs of Congress Wlio Acted Sus? piciously and Laid Themselves Lia? ble to Charge c?f Pio-Gernu u Sym? pal by to He Exposed. Washington, Oct. 18.?Representa? tive Heflin, of Alabama, says he will soon name the men who he insinuated ion the floor of the house o' repre? sentatives might be participr-ting in j the Bernstorff $50,000 corruption fund. At that time the Alabama con glCSSinsil made a blanket im ictment saying he suspected thirteen >r four j ten men. He has 'extended" his remarks in the Congressional Record. In the final number of that publication, out i today, he says: "I would name the suspicious members in this statement now but if I should do so my re? marks would not be published in the Congressional Record. I will name them soon. The country is entitled to know them." In another pail of his written speech as reported in the Reeord tho Alabaman says when he aslced for unanimous consent to be allowed to name the men he suspected: "Lo! The colleague of one of the men I had in mind rose and ob? jected." This- objector, according to he Hef lln statement in the Congressional Record, turns out to be Mr. Garner, of Texas. Mr. earner's colleagues are: Mc Lemore, Daniel, Garett, Blact, Dies \ oung, Rayburn, Summers, Hardy, Gregg, Eagle, Mansfield. Btchanan, Connolly, Wilson and Jones, a Mr. Heflin says that three times he asked for unanimous- consent "but the friends of the men who were afraid tf being named before the congress lard the country caused objections to be made." He also says that Sep? tember 24, when called on to name ' ihe men, he refrained, because I knew certain members would make ' points of order and prevent n e from giving my reasons for naming certain members." , Mr. Carner, according to Mr. Heflin, arranged with Mr. Moore, of Pennsyl? vania, to block unanimous consent 33 hat "a personal encounter" "tetween Mr. Heflin and Mr. Norton, of Nortn )akota, would be avoided. 'This purely disinterested and tin .selfish consideration shown for me by hese two members," sarcastically writes Mr. Heflin, "is something that must respectfully submit to tho country. It is passing strange that in order to keep me from nam ng tho lew suspicious members a member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Moor??) was l oing to object to Mr. Norton making i. speech and Mr. Garner, of Texa.i, waa going to object and depr ve me cf that privilege. ZEPPELINS RAID EXGLAND. Twenty-Seven Killed and Fifty-Thrro Wounded. Zeppelins, last sight abou. mid? night, raided the eastern and north e LStern counties of England a id ap preached London. They dropped bombs on several places, killing 27 and wounding *1 in all sections, It is officially annoi ced. The statement a so says that material damage was d )ne to houses and business places. Although bombs fell in the London area, protective guns were busy only a few minutes, and it is believed the raiders were checked before making SJ y serious attempt at the inner parts of the city. Related reports of the naval Kittle around Moon Sound Wednesday indi? cate that the Russians gave a good account of themselves. The Hissian admiralty saga the entire third and fourth sqasdronS of the German high seas fleet and probably the fifth sq jadron were engaged. The three 8<i tadrons named comprise two thirds of the German fleet. No more sh pa have been reported lost by eith? er side. british aerial and artillery ivork continues In Flanders, probably pre SOgtng another attack within a few days, The weather favors the ivia toi I. (Ondon, Oct. 20. ? A dispatch to the Times from Odessa SSyS that ? hun? dred passengers were killed or wounded on a train that was held up by 100 brigands near Vtadlkavksa in thi Caucasus, I?ondon, Oct. 80,?The American tehooner Jennie H. Brighter, six hundred and forty-seven tons, was ink by a submarine off Cape Vil? la no. Spain Tuesday. Nine members jf the crew hav< landed.