Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-04
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ten year-averageS respectively by
states follows: Indiana, 80 and SO;
North Carolina, SO and 81; South
Carolina, "a and 80; Georgia, 50 and
81; Florida, S5 and "a; Alabama, IS
and 81; Mississippi, Sc and so;
Louisiana, SO and 81; Texas, 50 and
50; Arkansas, sc and 50; Tennessee,
8S and "a; Missouri, SO and "a; Ok
lahoma, &C and 65.
Washington, August /: Prosperity,
better and saner than the United States
has ever known before, is foreseen for
the next decade by Prof. Henry G..
Adams, for twenty years in charge OF
statistics and accounts for the inter-
state commerce commission. Pro1.
Adams is recognized as one Of the clos
est students of industrial and financial
conditions in the service of the gov
ernment. The intimate association
with the railroads and their operation
has given him an insight into condi-
tions unequaled. The commissions
statiscian has reached the conclusion
that business in all lines will return
rapidly to normal, and normal cond!-
tionS are to be succeeded quickly by
extraordinary prosperity In every ne-
partment of industrial activity. Soth
capital and labor in his opinion, are on
the dawn Of a new day. Prof. Adams
declared that the holder of stocks is
about ito come into his own" He re-
CARDS the depression that followed the
panic of last October as a blessing in
disguise, in that 1t will insure economy
by preventing the return of reckless
confidence that was engendered by TOO
much and too long continued GOOD
times.
Two men were killed and nine
were more or less seriously wounded
at Pensacola. Fla, last Wednesday
night while storming the jail in an
effort to secure and lynch negro
prisoner, Leander Shaw. On the day
before, Shaw assaulted MRS. Lillian
Davis. a highly respected lady, who
lived near the city. Her husband was
absent at the time. Shaw cut the
lady's throat, beat her wich a revol-
yer, and left her in a condition, from
which she died on Thursday morning.
The negro was arrested and committed
to Jail Within a few hours a crowd
of men began to gather about the jail:
The sheriff, backed by a number or
deputies, told the mob that it was his
purpose to defend the Jail at all haz-
yards, and begged the men 10 let the
law take its course. In spite or the
sheriffs pleading, however, the mop
tried to batter down the doors OF the
iail. The sheriff and posse opened hre
and the fire was returned by the mob'
volley after volley being exchanged
The mob retired, but later returned
with endorsements, overpoWered the
sheriff and deputies and got the ne
gro. Shaw was hanged to an electric
light pole and thousands of bullets
were fired into his body.
Muscogee. I. T, correspondence OF
the Kansas City Star: Pushmata
county is not only one OF the largest
in the state, but it contains more IN
accessible mountain fastness and pos
sibly more outlaws hiding IN the
mountains than any other county IN
the state. Within the last six months
the denredations of the outlaws have
become Of a most exaSperating nature
and officers Of that and surrounding
counties seem unable to break up the
outlaw hauntS. Posse after posse mas
gone into the Jack Fork mountains 10
try to drive out the horse thieves and
robbers known to rendezvous there,
but the officers seldom succeed IN
finding them. In fact, the outlaws
have become so bold and self-conn-
dent that they send taunting and den
ant letters to the officers, and IA
vorite custom is to get posse on the
chase and then steal horses and rop
stores and postoffices right in the path
of the pursuers. Smithville, in NC
Curtin county, seems to be close 10
the outlaw headquarters. ana II Is
said the outlaws have even written
the officers where their headquarters
are in both counties, and dared them
to try to come in and make arrests'
The character of the county ana the
desperate outlaws make outlaw cnas
ing very dangerous business IN that
Of state
Gen. Blume, a military expert, has
recently presented a report TO the Ger
man general staff as to the probable
cost of a modern European war, which
is now published in the official bulle-
tin issued by the general stan. Gen.
Blume, says a Berlin dispatch, points
out that great changes have taken
place since the Franco-Prusslan war
of thirty-eight years ago, when the
total German forces were l,2OO'OoO'
Germany would be able to put four
and three-quarter millions OF troops
into the field in the next war, ana oth-
er powers had armies of correspond
ing dimensions. A war fought against
another European power would cost
Germany in hard cash at least Sl,5OO,-
0OO,0 900 per annum as long as II last-
ed. while the indirect loss through II
nancial depression, commercial stag
nation and paralysis of industry Woulu
be far greater. The power opposed
to Germany would suffer similar loss
es. direct and indirect; and if three,
four or more European powers were
involved in war, which was probable,
in view of the existing alliances, 1t
was evident that the drain on the re-
sources of Europe would be appalling.
incidentally. Gen. Blume expresses
the opinion that the loss of life would
be heavier than in the recent Russo.
Japanese war, when 20 per cent OF
the Japanese armies in the heid were
killed or wounded. Reckoning the
same proportion, the figures in great
European war would be approximate
ly 100000 killed and wounded, but
Gen. Blume holds that the proportion
would be still higher and that Euro
pean war would be a Yeritable orgle
of blood.
-Four negroes were taken from the
iail at RuSSellville, Ky, last Saturday
morning and hanged Their oftense
was leadership in a secret organization
known as the True Reformers,
which sought to give aid and comfort
to a member who is in Jail for murder.
Not long ago, white man named
lanes Cunningham, was killed by a
negro named Rufus BrOwder. Brow
der was a tenant on Cunningham s
place, and as the upshOt of quarrel,
Cunningham drove him off. Browder
came back in the afternoon, secreted
himself on a path that Cunningham
would have to follow on his way home
and killed him. BrOwder made MS es-
cape: but was captured and put IN JAN
at RusSellville. A mob attacked the
jail; but already the prisoner had been
transferred to Bowling Green from
where he was afterward taken to
Louisville. In the meantime, the True
Reformers," held a meeting and TOOK
action with regard to the matter. The
whites of the country understood that
resolutions were adopted approving the
murder of Cunningham; but the ne
grOes claimed that they only agreed to
raise money with which to employ
counsel for the defense of BrOwder.
Anyhow. four Of the leaders Of the or
ganizatiOn were arrested and put In
Jail at Russellville. The mob came
into the town with but little noise,
strung the four men to tree. waited
until they were dead and rode away.
There was no shooting. This note was
found pinned to one of the bodies:
LET this be a waring t. you niggers
to let white people alone or you will
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