Four Drowned in Cape Fear River Tragedy
Four prominent men drowned when a motor boat capsized on the Cape Fear River during a visit to interned vessels at Wilmington. Dr Morris M. Caldwell and his brother Cletl Caldwell of New York, Dr J J Bornemann, and Chief Engineer Harwell of the German steamer Nicaria perished. Only Chief Engineer Reimers of Kiel survived, aided by Captain Ollasch. Despite daylong dragging, bodies were not recovered.
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Wilmington
Cape Fear
Morris M. Caldwell
Cletl Caldwell
New York
J. J. Bornemann
Harwell
Nicaria
Smith Meter
Kiel
Grace Street
Reimers
Ollasch
Caldwell
Torrerman
Caperton Seizes Haitian Customs Office as Order Restored
Rear Admiral Caperton reports control of the Cape Hayden customs office with Paymaster Charles Morris temporarily in charge. He notes improving Cape Halden conditions and rising local support for the reorganized city government. A Haitian gunboat Nord Alexis arrived at Port au Prince with 800 disciplined soldiers, escorted home by U S Marines after pledging peace.
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Caperton
Haiti
Washington
Nait
Cape Hayden
Charles Morris
Wilmington
Port Au Prince
Cape Halden
Ainange
Nord Alexis
Port Au Orince
Navy Advisory Board Adds Aviation Pioneers to Rank
The American Society of Aeronautic Engineers names Henry A Wise Wood and Elmer A Sperry to the Navy advisory board of inventors. A three group committee to cooperate with them includes leaders in aero planes engines warfare and dirigibles with members Baldwin Stevens Upson and Rice among others.
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Navy Advisory Board
New York
American Society of Aeronauticnaineers
Henry A. Wise Wood
Elmer A. Sperry
Navy Advisory Board of Inventors
Theociety
Woodnd
Sperry
Orke Wright
Glenn Tf. Curtis
W.tarling Burgess
Charles M. Lanly
Cter
Cooper Hewitt
Johnnys Tam Fond, Jr
Joseph AL Steinmetz
Tomas H. Baldwin
A. Leo Stevens
Alph III
Upson
Raymond BR Rice
Atlantic Fleet Prepares to Defend Seaboard as War Games Loom
Admiral Fletcher announced naval leaders and war college officers are studying new combat plans to defend the eastern seaboard. The exercise in Narragansett Bay follows target practice and will test procedures against a simulated foreign fleet attack using lessons from prior maneuvers.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Newport
Qeain
Inva
Aadural Frank HH. Fletcher
Ival War College
Pe Ab
Narranganset Bay
Plobcher
Cotton Crop Off Report Shows 1914 18 Output
Final report from Hl. G. Hos. secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange notes that 194,000 bales were grown but the commercial crop reached 150,811,100 bales including seed valued at 749,384,978 dollars, with the previous period at 434,544,1114. The crop is described as remarkably even in trade, averaging middling with no excess of high or low grades.
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New Orleans
Hl. G. Hos
New Orleans Coin Exchange
Refuting Britain on U S Neutral Trade Findings
Washington reports elaborate statistics to counter the British claim that rising U S exports to neutral European nations feed Germany and Austria. Data from the State Department and Commerce, plus a London consul’s six month Britain trade, show Scandinavian and Dutch trade patterns aligning with American exports and increased British re exports in June 1915, including cotton shifts to Holland and Sweden.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Germany
Austria
Wilson
Departeent
Great Britain
Skinner
London
Holland
Sweden
Unwise Action Hints at Risk to Cotton Farmers
Washington report by W P G Harding of the Federal Reserve Board compares the 1915 cotton crop outlook with last year. He says current conditions are stronger and warns the South against unwise actions that could frighten markets or jeopardize national interests.
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President Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Harding
South
Mr. Harding
Wilson
President Wilson to push defense in next congress message
President Wilson plans to make national defense a principal topic in his forthcoming message to Congress. He will not finalize policy until after reports from Secretary Garrison and Secretary Daniels are reviewed, and he has already considered the issue. He intended to receive the two reports upon returning to Washington.
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Cornish
N. B
Wilson
Congress
Garrison
Daniels
Washington
Mexican Situation Left Undivided in Conference Amid Peace Plan Efforts
Washington reports the Pan American Conference adjourned without a final route for Mexico as Latin American diplomats coordinate with Secretary Lansing and President Wilson. The plan aims to appeal to Mexican leaders and people, seeking peaceful settlement while recognizing military factions. South American doubts focus on eliminating military leaders and broad class recognition to advance peace.
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Washington
Mexico
New York
Lansing
Wilson
Azine
Russians Evacuate Ivangorod Fort As German Offensive Advances
German forces press from the Narew region while Russian lines at Ivangorod north of Warsaw are abandoned with fortifications destroyed. Russians retreat southeast with rear guard actions as Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s forces close in.
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London
Novogeorgievsk
Warsaw
Vistula
von Hindenburg
Ivangorod
Berlin
Narew
Berlin orders 60 victory shots for Warsaw capture
London dispatch cites General von Kessel as military commander of Berlin who ordered a salute of 60 victory shots fired at noon to mark the taking of Warsaw.
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London
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Berlin
von Kessel
Warsaw
Willys-Overland To Implement 48-Hour Work Week
Toledo workers at Willys-Overland plant were informed a 48 hour work week will start after November, a voluntary move by the company made about six weeks ago impacting about eleven thousand employees.
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Toledo, O
Willys-Overland Company
Additional Marines Ordered to Haiti Reinforce Caperton
Washington reports a new regiment of marines ordered to Haiti to bolster Rear Admiral Caperton’s forces in Cape Haitien and Port Au Prince. They sail from Philadelphia aboard the Tennessee and Co L W Wall er, U S M C, commands ashore under Caperton. The force includes 1,900 men, 79 machine guns and four three inch navy field pieces.
General Tracy Dead in New York After Paralysis
General Benjamin I. Tracy former secretary of the navy under President Harrison died in New York City after nine days of unconsciousness. Doctors marveled at his vitality as he fought for life, having previously suffered a paralysis shock three years earlier but recovered.
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General Tracy
New York
Benjamin I. Tracy
President Harrison
Flood Devastates Richmond as 25 Dead Reported
A cloudburst inundates Richmond Virginia, five feet in the business district and four feet on Mill Creek. The Mine Dispatch plant floods and the Associated Press wire stops. Police and civilians drown. John Higgins is the first victim recovered. 300 flood sufferers stay in the National Guard Armory, with 200 more housed in rescue mission facilities. Damage exceeds 500000 dollars as three downtown buildings collapse.
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Associated Press
John Higgins
East Eighth Street
Twenty-eighth Street
Mill Creek
Ninth Street
National Guard
City Rescue Mission
Richmond
Russians cling to Warsaw as German advance slows
London reports Russians resist Austro German artilleries and delays hinder German supply. Berlin cites renewed pressure from Field Marshals Mackensen and Hindenburg, with Germans extending bridgeheads south of Warsaw and Austrians claiming a decisive southern advance.
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London
Russia
Warsaw
Marshall von Mackensen
Marshall von Hindenburg
Narew
Berlin
Manchester Council Seeks Cotton Contraband Declaration
The Manchester city council at a meeting adopted a resolution demanding that the British government declare cotton contraband. The action reflects local sentiment over trade restrictions affecting the textile trade.
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Manchester
Irag
City Council of
Bandits Fight Cavalrymen Near Brownsville
Mexican bandits besieged by United States cavalrymen and Texas deputy sheriffs in Brownsville Texas escaped after a brush in which six saddled horses were captured. Earlier a fight left Private McGuire of the Twelfth Cavalry dead and Privates Curtis and Clapsaddle wounded. a deputy sheriff was also struck by a stray bullet.
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Brownsville
Texas
McGuire
Twelfth Cavalry
Curtis
Clapsaddle
Sherif
Warsaw Falls to German Forces in Dramatic Capture
Berlin reports a bold German advance under Prince Leopold breaches outer and inner Warsaw forts. Russian troops retreat burning valuables as Germans seize the city center and take thousands of prisoners, altering eastern and western war theaters.
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Prince Leopold
von Scholz
von Callwitz
Lomza
Ostrov
Vizkow
Rozan
Courland
Genaize
Birsehi
Oniskstahty
Ivangorod
Vistula River
Bug
Vladimirvolynsk
Vosges
Lingekopf
Blenie Front
Warsaw
Petrograd
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Berlin
Marshal von Hindenburg
Latin American nations react to U S mediation on Mexico
Buenos Aires newspapers broadly accept the U S appeal for co operation from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Guatemala in pacifying Mexico. La Prensa praises the proposal as generous but says mediation would be preferable only if Mexican factions seek moral help from Latin American republics.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos
State Tax Boards to Assess Banks
Supreme Court stays injunction and writ of mandamus in cases against the state tax commission involving banks in Greenville and Greenwood. Orders signed by Judge R C Watts remain stayed pending appeal, with November term set for arguments.
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Gary
R. C. Watts
Columbia
Eugene B
The
Supreme c
Tax Commission
Olina
Supreme Court
Laurens
Peoples National Bank of Greenville
National Loan and Exchange Bank of Greenwood
W. T. Bailey
Greenwood
Thomas H. Peeples
Fred H. Dominick
Watts
Greenville Bank
Richland County
Thos H. Peeples
Macred
Florence Bonds Sold
City and school bonds totaling 222000 were sold at a premium of 1.16 percent above par. The entire issue was bought by the First National Bank of Florence. Bonds pay 5 percent interest and mature in 40 and 20 years.
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Florence
First National Bank
Association forms to promote Appalachian highway link
An enthusiastic Glenn Springs meeting fully organized an association to promote the Columbia to Asheville Appalachian highway project. Commissioner J. H. Watson led a central committee with I. J. Watson as chairman to plan the effort, with citizens from towns along the route and a Spartanburg delegation in attendance.
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Spantanburg
Glenn Springs
Columbia
Asheville
N. C
Jh. J. Watson
Spartanburg
I. J. Watson
Saluda man Mr Rowe’s family counts twenty eight children
L A Rowe of the Wemory section, aged 69, has 28 children with two marriages. The latest birth occurred July 26, yielding 16 children from his first wife and 12 from his second. He also has 41 grandchildren and three great grandchildren, reflecting a prolific family.
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Saluda
L. A. Rowe
Wemory
Mr. Rowe
Marri
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Clell Caldwell
J. H. Borneman
Simeon E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Robert Lansing
England
Farmer
Miss Mabel Boardman
Miss Boardman
Red Cross
Erie
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Teutons
Leopold of
Barbaria
Tuckertown
N. J
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