Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-19
Scraps aud 5aets.

$4,000; Florida, $4,000; Georgia, l.
$4,000; Louisiana, 21S,0OO; Mississip-
pi. 724,OO0; Missouri and Virginia. 49,
600; North Carolina, 100000; Oklaho-
ma, 47S,OOO: South Carolina, $4,000;
Tennessee, $4,000; Texas, 2,O5s,0O0;
total s.Os6,O00.
London, November II: Gen. Booth
of the Salvation Army, in a report
today, says his organization cannot
handle one-tenth Of the applicants for
help. The conditions in London and all
England are the worst in history. One
person out Of every thirty-two in Lon
don Is a pauper. Hundreds Of thou
sands of able-bodied workmen are
starving with their families and hun
dreds of thousands are walking the
streets. Even the jails are turning
away men anxious for Imprisonment
with food and shelter The increase of
the unemployed Is IL per cent over
last year There is no work. Political
turmoil over the Lloyd George budget,
is threatening the dissolution Of the
house Of lords and paralyzing the re-
cent incipient trade revival.
Secretary Wilson has issued a
statement pointin~ out that the United
States government is spending in the
neighborhood of $1S,OOO,000 a year on
experimental work in increasing the
yield and efficiency of the farms Of the
country. The statement was inspired
By the charge made by William C..
Brown, president of the New York
Central lines, at dinner in New York
this week that the nation could better
afford to invest the cost Of one battle
ship in agricultural experiment work
than to expend 1t in the increase or
the navy. A battleship costs approx
mately 100000. Secretary Wilson
declares that the government is ex-
pending each year exactly twice as
much as two firSt-class battleships
cost, and the money is being used in
precisely the manner recommended by
the railroader. The assistance given
the farmers of the United States, the
secretary declared, is not confined to
any locality. AS an instance or the
aid the department renders, Secretary
Wilson recited the case Of farmer who
was raising only twenty bushels OF
potatoes to the acre and who, dissat-
isfied. appealed to the department for
assistance and advice. Both were
given promptly, and Mr.. Wilson says
that he now Is raising ESQ bushels TO
the acre on the same land as result
of using the seed and the information
given him by the government.
Frankfort, Kentucky, November
II: Governor Wilson Of Kentucky, has
promised farmers a pardon for every
homicide committed in resisting the
attacks Of the armed night riders, and
taking the governor at his word the
men now out of the tobacco pool have
turned their homes into arsenals. Sol
diers returning here last night from
Mason county report the Benjamin
Longnecker home as containing ten
Krag Jorgenson rifles, six Swiss re-
peating rifles and an equal number OF
shotguns and revolvers, and three
guards on duty day and night Long
necker Is a banker in Maysville and
resides six miles in the country. He
raised a crop Of ten acres which he re-
fused to pool. A week age he was Wis
tied by a band Of armed men and his
home was riddled with bullets.
New York, November is: The con-
troll Of the Western Union Telegraph
company passed today to the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph company
and a long step was taken toward the
merging Of the telephone and tele-
graph companies into a corporation
with a capitalization Of nearly one bill
lion dollars. The announcement of the
requirement of the Western Union,
known as a Gould property, by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company came from Boston. The ac-
QUESTION Of the Western Union and the
recent absorption Of various district
Bell Telephone companies in various
parts Of the COUNT indicate large
increase in the present capitalization of
the parent company, the American
Telephone and Telegraph company.
- Washington, November 16: Rather
than ask clemency from the govern
ment, ex-Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp prob
ably will choose to go back to the peo-
pie of Hamilton county, Tenn, after
his 80 days term in jail for contempt
Of the United States supreme court has
been served, and test their confidence in
him by asking reelection to his old Of
flee. Capt Ships sentence for failing
to prevent the lynching Of Ed Johnson,
the negro whose legal execution for
criminal assault of white woman was
stayed for a review by the supreme
court, will expire just in time to allow
him to begin his campaign for sheriff.
Two months later primaries will be
held in Hamilton, and the selection for
office again would be regarded by
Sheriff Shipp as partial compensation
for the temporary deprivation of lib
erty. Mr.. Shipp and five fellow prison.
ers, all held in contempt in connec-
ton with the lynching. began to ap-
preciate this morning the inconven-
ience of Jail confinement. The novelty
of the surroundings yesterday and the
atmosphere of martyrdom that sur
rounded them in previous days, was
dimmed by the straw beds and pillows
on which they tried to sleep through
the night. The plainness of the Jail
fare was keenly observed. Warden
Mckee visited the men in their room
and discussed with Mr.. Shipp methods
of making good citizens of the aver
age prisoners. The other Tennessee
prisoners took little part in the CONVEX
sation. The warden offered to lend
the prisoners books in the library. Most
of them preferred to read the news
papers.
- Washington. Nov. IS: Schemes to
defraud the farmer and the would-be
farmer-meaning the city man, who Is
attracted 10 the country by SpeciouS