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.... -I ' ..-Tc. It;'' KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN,. k. C SUNK IN NORTH SEA BRITISH LOSE TWO CRUISERS BY TEUTONIC SUBMARINE ATTACKS. SENATE PASSES NEW SHIPPING BILL WILSON ADMINISTRATION SUC CEEDS AFTER HARD LEGISLA TIVE STRUGGLE. IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE THAT COUNT ONE SUBMARINE DESTROYED ! SENATE VOTE WAS 38 TO 21 Kaiser's High 8eas Fleet Come Out But was Put Back Quickly. One German Submarine Rammed By An other, 39 Fatalities Are Result. London Two llrlli?ih Miit cruisers, the Nottingham ami i'iilmoiiuih, w-ic-sunk In Notli Sea by (juTinuu sun marines while Hie vessel:, were ' Beaching Tor lite i.ennun htKii hsis fleet, according to un oli'ii iiil an nouncement by Mi" Admiralty. Ov German siilunurin-' was destroyed Ijy the British, while another was ram. med and possibly sunk, ucrording to the Admlrul statfttieut which follows: "Reports from our lnoKoul stiuiol rons and other uniu snowed thre was considerable activity on the part of the enemy. In the North Sea on Saturday. The Herman hiKU sea Heet came out, but learning from their acouta that the Uiltltdi forces were in considerable strngth. the enemy avoided an engagement and returned to port. "In searching for the enemy we lost two cruisers by submarine at tacks H. M. S. .Nottingham. Captain C. B. Millet, and li. M. S. Falmouth. Captain John Kdwsirds. All the ol'I'i cers of the former were saved, but 38 of the crew are mlsing. All the officers and men of the Falmouth were saved, but one stoker, Norman Fry, died of Injuries. 8everal Important Amendments Are Agreed to. Bill Has Already Passed House and Will Very Likely Find no Opposition in House to Amendments. Washington. The government ship-, ping bill passed the Senate by a vote of US to 21, ending one of the most bitterly contested legislative strug gles of the Wilson administration. In the Ri-:r Congress the niessure precipi tated a Ivmocratlc revolt nnd a fili buster who li Toned postponement of man important bills, but revised so as to minimize the government opera tion f'-ature, received unanimous Dem ormt.c support and solid Republican opposition.- It already bad passed the riou:-e. The shipping bill provides for cre ation of a government shipping board to acquire and Operate ships for re habilitation of the American merchant marine and impropriates $50,000,000 for the purpose, to be raised by the sale of I'nnama Cuuil bonds. Several Important amendments were agreed to Just before the final vote, among tl.am one which would reduee the salary of the shipping board members Inym (10,000 to 17,600 a year. Other amendment passed in clude one which wild authorise the FX, Jj i"'rV t oDvriietit.t HEALTH EXPERTS , v .. . i VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN TO , PRE VENT FURTHER 8PREAO OF, INFANTILE PARALYSI8. JABLONITZA HAS FALLEN RUSSIANS TAKE JABLONITZA ON WAY FROM GALACIA TO HUNGARY. Fierce Figting Is Being Waged Along Entire Line at Brody. Italians Vig orously Pressing Advance on Carzo. Germans Admit Loss. London. The Russians have cap tured Jablontltza. one of the princi pal gateways from Callcla to the Hun garian plains, and Petrograd reports that their nfTpnsiva In thin riirnrHnn president to seek adjustment of foreign continuing. This is the first news u.sn.u.mauou aKau, i American snip-1 of n a(vance Dy tne Ruasan South ping through diplomatic negotiations j ern army 8ln tne connue3t of the nnd to take retaliatory action if auch Austrian corwnland of Bukowlne, was ADVANCE BY TRIPLE BLOW FRENCH AND BRITISH STRIKE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE ON SOMME FRONT. PRESIDENT V.'ILSON URGES THAT PLAN BE ACCEPTED. If 8trlke Comes Responsibility Will Not Rest Upon Him. Washington. President Wilson ap pealed to the railroad officials to aban don their inststanc on arbitration of the dispute threatening a nation-wide strike and to accept his plan of settle ment, arleady agreed to by the em ployes, because in his opinion the rail roads are contending for a principle which it seemingly is impossible' to apply to the present situation. In one of the most dramatic scenes' known to the While House in recent years, the President declared to the heads of five billion dollars worth of properties, assenibbled at his sum mons: " ' "If a strike comes, the public will know where the responsibil ity rests. It will not be upon me." A few minutes late he issued a statement saying, "The public has the right to expect" acceptance of his plan. - Refusing acceptance for the pres ent, but' not glclng a final answer. Hale Holden, president of the Bur lington roads, and spokesman for the S3 railroad officials, urged the Presi dent to uphold the principle of ar bitration, and declared his plan would "place in peril all that has been ac compllshed In the peaceful adjusts ment of labor controversies by meth ods of arbitration," ntgntlntions fall. Another would authorize the treasury to withhold clearance from masters ,I vessels who dellbeiately refuse to accept freight from American citizens without satis factory reasons. ALLIES CAIN ON GERMAN CENTER IN SOMME FRONT. Another Step Made In Anglo-French j Advance Toward Combles. London. Assauults by British and erfort t0 cut the army of General Von Bothmer and force its surrender FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED BY A FLORIDA MOB ' Gainesville, Fla, Five negroes, three men and two women, were tak en from the Jail at Newberry, Fla., and hanged by a mob and another negro was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs near Jonesville, Fla.. as the result of the killing of Constable S. G. Wynne and the. shooting of Dr. I. U. Harris Dy . Bolsey Long, a negro. The lynched j negroes were accused of aiding bong to escape. Dispatches from Newberry ald that the mob, which lynched the five ne groes, was composed of about 200 men and worked quietly and rapidly. Af ter gaining entrance to the Jail they took the victims to a point about a mile from town and hanged all to one 'large oak tree. Not a shot was fired, TROPICAL STORM IN TEXAS ' DID MILLIONS IN DAMAGE French forces againdt German post Hons north of the Scminie in France have resulted In the gaining of addl- llnnil trrnonl h., -fln,.1,n-a . cording to the British and French r..'"".'''64 War Office. The French advance was in and around Maurepas, the scene of much hard fighting during the last few weeks, and the British gain was in the direction of Glnchy and Gutlle mont, near the Southern end of their section of the Somme front. The Anglo-French attack London' says, took place along the whole' Hue from Pozler to the Somme. The gains reported by Paris and London were In the center of .the Ger man positions on the Somme front and mark another Btep in the. Anglo French advance toward Combles, French troops gained more ground in the village of Maurepas, after the stopping of German ' counter-attacks near the village. Calvary hill, south east of the village, was carried by as sault and the French positions on the Maurepas-Clery road was also ex tended. . WILSON VETOES ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL. Teutons Are Driven Back 300 to 500 Yards. Allies Are Now Near the Big Railroad Town of Combles. Quiet on Other Fronts. , London. The French and British striking with terrific force in three di rections on the Somme front, have stormed nearly three miles of German trences, f-lvlng forward at points to a depth of 300 to 500 yads. The most important gains were made by the British and French troops striking north from the point where the Allied lines meet. Maure pas and Clery, two of the most impor tant points held by the Germans in this sector, have been flanked on both sides. The road has also been reached be tween Maurepas and Gutllemont, the latter town being the immediate ob jective of the British. This advance, if maintained, brings the Allien direct ly in front of the large railroad town of Sombles. - South of the Somme, the French stormed German trenches . ovor length of about three-quarters of a mile, driving forward in a southerly direction from Belloy-on Santerre. Paris reports that a considerable num ber of prisoners were taken in these operations. For the first time in many days no important action is reported from the Russian front and the same dearth of new prevails in regard to the Italian The Germans admit that the Brit-, operations. The most important item lsh have obtained a foothold in their of news regarding the Italian advance trenches In the Thiepval-Pozleres j against Triest is contained in a news front and report the repulse of cio-1 dispatch from Milan, which says that lent attacks by the British and French . German troops are to be employed In In other sectors of he Somme line the defense of the big Austrian nort completed. Further to the mtxth the Russians are continuing their driving opera tions against the Austrlans with ap parently uninterrupted success. Tholr troops are pouring across the Zlota Llpa at several points in spite of des perate resistance on the part of the Teutonic forces. Fierce fighting is being waged along the entire line south of Brody, and General Brussi loff apparently is making a supreme In, the other theaters of war Inter est centers In the Italian operations, The Italians are vigorously pressing theid advance on the Carzo plateau and Rome reports ithe capture of sev eral sections of the Austrian trenches and the taking of more than 1,600 prisoners. THE EUROPEAN. WAR A YEAR AGO WEEK HEALTH AUTHORITIES MEET According to Paris and ' London the day passed without any event of sig nificance, NAVY BILL PASSES AND DEFENSE PROGRAM FINISHED, Great Increases Written Into Meas ure Is Accepted By House, Washington. Congress virtually completed the national def fense pro gram by finally approving the great Increases In naval construction and personnel written Into the naval bill and urgently supported ley the Admin- The house accepted the Washington. The Army appropria tion bill was unexpectedly vetoed by istratlon. President Wilson because he would building program, to. which the con not accept certain provisions in theiferees on the measure had refused to revision of the articles of war, forced I agree by a vote of 2S3 to 61, with Into the bill by the House conferees j seven of the membera present not and commonly said in army circles to voting. The personnel Increases on be In theinterest of certain retired officers "at outs" with the army. DEUTSCHLAND REPORTED SAFE HOME AT BREMEN Corpus Christl, Texas. The loss of life from the tropical storm which itruck Corpus Christl and 10 adjacent Texas counties, was placed at 13, in ' eluding nine members of the crew of the small freighter Pilot Boy, which foundered off Arkansas Pass. The total damage in this- section of which Corpus Chrlsti bore the heaviest part was estimated at $2,000,000. This in eludes devastation of a large, portion of the lower coast's cotton crop. HUNDRED SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED ON BORDER ' u Naco, Arlz.--Over a hundred shots were exchanged across the Interna tional Una about a mile west of here ' between patrols belonging to the negro National Gnard from the Dis trict of Columbia and a party on the Mexican aide. The soldiers said they halted some Mexicans, who attempted to cross the line, In answer to the . challenge the Mexicans fired. In the fnsilade that followed the nly casual ty was one Mexican wounded. - Geneva, via Paris. A private tele gram received from Berlin by the Neite Zuricher Zeitung says the Ger man submarine Deutscbland arrived saf ?ly at Bremen from the United State. FINAL ACTION IN HOUSE ON THE 'PHILIPPINE BILL Washington. Final action on the Philippine bill promising Independence to the islands as soon as a stable gov ernment is' established, was taken In tty House when the conference report was adopted. Manuel Qeuzon, Philippine , dele gate, told the House the bill was a ."signal victory for the cause of human liberty and a very decisive step toward the complete emancipation of the Fili pino people." DECORATED FOR SINKING 100 SHIPS OF ALLIES Amsterdam, via London.-Mn recog nition of his sinking of 100 vessels of the Entente' Allies, Captain-Lieutenant Walter Forstmann, comander of a which there also was a disagreement In conference were approved without a record vote. The personnel and construction sec tions which already have the appro val of the Berate, authorizes an in reaBe in enlisted men to 74.700 and the building of 157 war vessel with in the next three years, with four battle cruisers and foun battleships Included among the ships for 1917. Previosly the house had refused to adopt a continuing building program, had' authorized only five capital ships, all of them battle cruisers, and had provided for a personnel of only 65, 000. On several less Important sections. Including appropriations for Improve ment of the Navy Yards, the house in Slated on its disagreement to senate increase? and voted to send tne om If corroborated, this means that Italy and Germany will at lam enter into an active state of war. VIRGINIA SOLDIER 8LAIN; MEXICAN GIRL SHOT. Dead Man Attacked as He Responded to Call For Help From Girl. Brownsville, Texas. Corporal Jas. Clement, C Company; Second Virginia Regiment, was shot and killed here and Sofia Valdez, a Mexican girl, was probably fatally wounded by another corporal assigned to the quartermas ter's corps of the regular army. A corporal who gave his name ias Dun ches was pursued by a posse two miles and his trail lost. Later he appeared at the county Jail and surrendered. Corporal Clement, who was 28 years of age, came from Wairenton, Va.t and is survived by his widow. GARARD MARSHALL CONVICTED OF ACCEPTING BRIBE - Girard, AIa.City Marshall John Oaken of Girard was convicted at Seale, Ala., on charges of accepting bribes for the protection of - liquor dealers -here and on testimony given at the trial. Mayor Earl Morgan and City Clerk I. A. Weaver were later arrested on similar charges. They were released under bonds of $2,600 each. The Clrard city council voted tc tax illegal liquor venders In Girard (25 a month and Instructed Oakes to collect this amount, according to testimony. Oakes testified that the Resolutions Adopted at Meeting. Ex . press No Alarm That Epedemio Might Become Countrywide, Prepare i .Against Widespread Outbreak. Washington. Plans for a more vlg- orous campaign to prevent further j spread of infantile paralysis were , made here at a conference of health authorities of most or the stateB with officials of the Federal Public Health Service. 1 Resolutions were adopted by the conference In whl h eminent plaguu experts, scientists nnd bacteriologists ' are participating outlined different -proposals for checking dissemination ' of the disease. ' Few of those present expressed ! alarm that the epidemic might assume countrywide' proportions, but they uniformly declared measures were necessary to guard against a wide- ; spread outbreak. Admission . was freely made by many experts that the cause of the plague Is unknown and ; the means of Its transmission not con clusively determined. Uniformity of regulations for trav. I el on railroad trains, steamships and other carriers, was urged by Secre- j tary McAdfo of the Treasury De-I partment In opening the conference i and while several speakers held that general quarantine again passengers from the Eastern Infected areas was unnecessary, the conference probably will recommend a system of uniform Inspection, issuance of health certifl. . cates and co-operation between' Fed reals and State health and railroad authorities toward safeguarding trav el. Medical representatives of a doz en larg'e trunk lines urged the con ference to assist In securing uniform traffic rules. A national survey presented by the state delegates Bhowed 11.717 cases In 38 states' reporting, lnccludlng cases since January 1. Following Is a summary of con- ; ditlons In Southern States. ' North Carolina--Dr. W. S. Rankin. 1 20 cases; two deaths; conditions not . unusual, except, five cases in one town In last three weeks. Only two Jases traceable to Ner -York. Seven-1 teen deaths last year. No quarantine ; against Eastern States. , J South Carolina Dr. J. E. Hayne j 18 cases In July and 37 In ' August : with none before. Developing in Wagner and Springfield districts.. No state quarantine but rigid Intrastate travel regulations. Virginia Dr. E. O. Williams, 10 cases In June and 19 In July; only one attributable to importation. Lo cal but not state quarantine. More cases In 1915 and sporadic since every month. Auaust 21. 11S. - Germans advanced on Oseo- wetx. . .''.'"" ' ' Russian fleet defeated German fleet In Gulf of Riga. 'British submarine V, F-13, aground on Danish Island, shelled by German torpedo boat . Great Britain and Franc de clared cotton absolute contra . band. Venlzelos accepted Greek premiership, . August 22, 1815. Severe artillery fighting In Ar ras region. Italians gained ground In the Carso front. Tv.o French torpedo boats sank German destroyer off 0 tend. Russians retired from the N le mon and Bobr line. August 23, 1915. Dssowetz captured by the Ger mans. Italians evacuated heights of Monfalcone. Austrians repulsed Italians east of Polazzo. British fleet of 30 vessels shelled Zeebrugge. August 24, 1915. Germans crossed the Narew river. Germans planned to Invade Serbia via Bulgaria. Austrlans attacks checked by Italian. August 25, 1915. Allies on Galllpoll peninsula advanced on 12-mile front. German cruisers bombarded signal stations near Riga. Austrian aeroplane bombarded Brescia. Sixty-two French aviators at tacked Dillingen, Rhenish Prus sia. ' Sixty allied areoplanes shelled Mont Huest forest in Belgium. August 25, 1915. Brest-Litovsk captured by Aus-tro-Germane. Germans took Bialystok. Reims again shelled by the German. British aviator Bigsworth sank German submarine with a bomb. August 27, 1915. German advance northeast of Brest-Litovsk drove Russians nearly to Kobryn. Austre-Germans broke through the Zicta Llpa line In Galicla. - Italians developed great move ment' against Trent and Trieste. THE WORLD OVER 8ENATORS URGE U. S. BOND ISSUE OF 1130,000,000 Success has followed pluming on that Unexpected Recommendation In Con-j sandhills of Nebraska. Jackplnes gress to Meet. Mexican planted there by the government for Expendltures. j est service ten -eiirs ago now have a Washington. A bond Issue of $130,-, height of 15 feet and n diameter of 000.000 to meet extraordinary govern- four Inches, . ment expenditures due to the Mexican To protects Swiss railroad from fro sftuatlon was unexpectedly recom- quent avalanches numerous snow re mended to Congress by majority mem- ! tnlnlng" walls hnve been hullt on a Bers of the Senate finance committee mountain side at points from which with the concurrence of the treasury the slides start, to hold the snow until department -V , it melts. The bond Issue is urged in the! An eiecmc neater to ue prncea in report" of the finance committee Dem-i hathtul after it has been filled to ocrats filed in the Senate late today on : raise the temperature of the wuter to council Instructed him to make these back to conference for settlement of collections and ho admitted receiving these pctlntB. ''' -.-,;;-.-' - r ' Secretary Daniele Issued a state ment pointing out that the building authorizations in the bill ware the greatest ever passed in any country HOUSE AND SENATE AID W. VA. FLOOD VICTIM8 U. S. Washington. Congress took steps to extend Federal aid to West Virginia flood victims In Paint and Cabin rroelta and the Kanawha and Coal German submarine has been given the , River Valleys.' The Senate adopted a Order of Pour le Merite by the Ger- resolution appropriating 3100.000 for man emperor, says a Berlin dispatch their relief and the House adopted an--ecslved here. The ships sunk by him, '-other resolution Including West Vlr inrlnding war vessels, aggregated 260,-1 glnia among Southern State td share 000 tons and their value is estimated I in the SjOO.OOO Sod relief approprla at 30.000.000 pounds atoilinB the dia-juon rtcsntly approved. " The , "House natch adds . vv : ? ., ;" 1 mmsore- nrobablv wflH b accctted. money under these Instructions. Oakes was remanded to' jail . to await Sentence. : Conviction carries with It a penitentiary term of from three to ten years: U. S. EXPLAINS DELAY IN 1 NAMING- BORDER BOARD Iv wfy Mexico City. Foreign Mlnistei Aguilar received communication from the American State Department explaining the delay in the appoint ment of the American conferences tc the International conference betweea Mextco and the United States.. The communivatton explained that severa' Wen of high standing - and position Whom it had been desired to appoint were unable 1 to '-accept because ' of other" engagements.- ; ' j, ". ' the 3205.000,900 revenue bill. . In addi tion to the proposed Issue and the reve nue bill the finance committee asserts that a further appropriation of $86,000,- 000 will be necessary to defray the ex pense of operations In the Mexican emergency if conditions on the bdrder continue as they are now after Decem ber 31 1916. The 3130,000,000 to be provided by the proposed bond Issue the report says, will meet Mexican expenditure only until the end of this calendar year.. v- BUFFALO WIN8 NEXT L , EAGLES' CONVENTION, Savannah Rex B. Goodcell, San Bernardino, .Cal., was chosen grand worthy president and Buffalo, N. Y, was awarded the 1917 convention at the eighteen annual meeting of the Grand Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles here. : Harry. J, Lemcke, Sagi naw, Mich,, was chosen grand worthy chaplain over Harry E. McUrgh, Cin cinnati. J. B. Perry," San Francisco, was ehoscn grand secretary, : . DEUTSCHLAND 'REPORTED '' '' SEEN OFF GRAND BANK8 Boston The sighting of a large sun marine believed to be the German merchantman Deutschland off the Grand Banks Saturday was reported by members of the crew oi the Warren liner Sachem, In. from Liverpool. The submersible was traveling In a north easterly direction at moderate speed. Soon after the submarine was sighted the steamer was turned toward 'her, the Sachem's officers believing at first that she was a dismantled vessel. -., ' ' nnv desired degree hns hecn nntenteit. by n n Ohio Inventor. A spark plug with two gups, produc ing two spurks at once, is finding fir- ' vor In England, the Idea being thut one gap is sure to work even If the -other becomes clogged by soot. . , By a series of Interesting experi ment with chickens, beginning before they are hatched, a Paris scientist has .--demonstrated that hncllll are not nee- essary to the life of vertebrates. . ' Willis A.. Cnlkln.1 of Ablngtonf, a large chicken raiser, hired an expert to. '.- come from Boston to pick chicken. -' The mnn. arrived about !):! in the " morning, stopped to eat dinner, an at five o'clock had 100 birds picked. "' The effort being made to educate ' s the public to the necessity of care In the matter of fire prevention are bear ing fruit as shown by recently com - . piled figures. Fire losses In 1915 de creased Str2,755,000, as compared with the 1914 record for the linlted States ' ' and Canada. The total losses by fire last year were only 1182,836,000, a ' compared with 3235.591,000 the previ- . ous year. ; c . ' Dr. N. P. Crooks, a ship surgeon em-- ployed by the PHcHlc-Jiipnn Steamship ff: company., hns crossed the Pacific ocean -123 times, covering In that time more' thnn i,0IIO,(00 miles - The telegraph nnd telephone systems, '. -.:.'. of the United Sfntes and Cnnuda 're- , -quire about 4,111)0,01 . poles a year for- : renewals, along old lines and the erect ing of new ip.es. , j- i j Commwcffll houses nre nrged ny the I governnienAo nve their, old"' correv spondence' (f I material for the piipj-V mills, ' One We house that formerly" J Durneo an ?iu tptitw old 'etter each yenr low wiling "tftVm'-V" '
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