Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-12
Scraps and facts.

that these securities were in danger
of destruction. Some of the smaller
vaults. however, have been found in
tact, and it is all but certain that all
of the securities will be found to be
safe, although it may be weeks before
the last of them are recovered.
THE authorities, according to a
Rome cable. are now in hopes that
the war will end soon. The govern
ment Is delaying the opening OF par
lament, so that, instead OF DEBATE
on the war, Premier Giolitt may be
able to announce that Italy has &C
uuired over 100000 square miles OF
territory and lost only $2O,OOO,OOO
The new colony will be called Libya.
If the war continues the most impor-
tant operations will probably be linn
tied to Cyrenaica, where the situation
is less satisfactory than in Tripoli
proper. There the Turks are still close
TO the Italian positions on the coast,
while the Arabs in the hinterland are
more warlike than those Of Trtpoli.
Rengazi, Derna and Tobruk remain
on the defensive, and are relying on
the naval guns to keep the enemy at
bay. An advance Is impossible With
out large re-enforcements. The Turks
at Bengazi are estimated to number
from 10, 900 to $4,000. There are about
10000 Arabs at Derna and 5000 at
Tobruk
-Poston. January 8: A plea of guilty
of murder in the first degree was made
last Tuesday by Rev. Clarence V. 1.
Richeson. He was sentenced by Judge
Sanderson to death by eloctrocution
some time during the week of May lS,
1912. Richeson had pleaded not
guilty recently when arraigned after
his indictment on the charge of muir
dering Avis Linnell of Hyannis, Mass,
his former fiancee. Following the
written confession made public sat
urday he retracted that plea and made
a formal plea of guilty. 1t Is under
stood that a petition may be made TO
Gov. Foss and the states executive
council to commute the death SEN
tence to life Imprisonment. Richeson
made no statement. He was In court
about six minutes His face was pale,
but he was perfectly composed and
answered formal questions PROFOUND
ed by Judge Sanderson in the simplest
possible way. When asked II he had
anything TO say, he replied: II have
nothing further to say, further than
my written confession"
The supreme court of the United
States on Tuesday annulled the North
Carolina statute Of 1905, which pc
nalized railroads for refusing to acr
goods for interstate commerce. The
court found the law to be an interfer-
ence with interstate commerce. The
constitutionality of the penalty law
was raised when the Southern railway
was sued by Reid & Beam of Ruther-
fordton, y. c.. for refusal to receive
a carload Of shingles for shipment to
ScottYille, Tenn. The court also de-
cided that Mrs. D. L. Reid, who was
delayed for five days in getting the
Southern railway to receive her house
hold goods for shipment from Char
lotte, n. e., to Davis, w. Va, was not
entitled to $3.50 as penalty and $25 as
damages under the statute. In this
case the supreme court of North Car
olina held that the mere fact that the
railroad had no published rate under
the interstate commerce laws from
Charlotte to Davis, and could not ship
the goods without a fixed public rate.
did not excuse the railroad. The su-
preme court of the United States to-
day held that the Federal government
alone could regulate the receipt OF
goods
- Washington, January 8: The CEN
sus bureaus eighth cotton ginning re-
port OF the season. issued at 10 a. m.
Tuesday, and showing the number OF
running bales, counting round as half
bales, Of cotton of the growth OF 1911
ginned prior to January l, with COM
parative statistics for last year and
other years, is as follows: United
States, 14,332,756 bales, compared
with 11,0S4.515 bales ginned prior to
Jan. l, 1911; 12,465,29S bales in 1908,
pinna1 and
1l,741,039 bales in 1906, when 9O.4
per cent was ginned. Round bales in
cluded were 96,22S, compared with
lO9,292 bales last year. l43,949 bales
in 1909 and 230,572 bales in 1908. Sea
island cotton included were 106,439,
compared with S2.432 bales last year,
1851 bales in 1909, and S6,52S bales
in 1908. Ginning by states. with COM
parative statistics and the percentage
of the entire crop ginned prior to jan
uary in other record years, follows:
499; Florida, S6,435: Georgia, 1928
6O4; Louisiana, 353,409; Mississippi,
l.047,5OS; North Carolina, 975,SO9:
Oklahoma, 902,562; South Carolina,
l.509,297: Tennessee, 3S0,040; Texas,
3.935.539; other states, 11O,3O2. Sea
island, by states: Florida, 3S,O95;
Georgia. 1854; South Carolina.
$500.
Washington, January 8: After a
lapse of more than ten years, Amerl-
can troops are again to enter China.
They are to aid in keeping open the
railroad from Peking to the sea-. In
the course of eight or nine days. 500
regular infantry will be diSembarked
at the little Chinese port of Chinwang-
tao. The movement was ordered after
mature consideration of the policy in
volved in landing American troops in
a foreign country under the peculiar
conditions now existing in China. Sew
eral days ago Mr.. Calhoun intimated
that some of the other powers were
looking to the United States to con-
tribute a quota of troops to meet
treaty obligations to keep open com
munication between the capital and
the coast. 1t required the intervening
time to develop the exact needs OF
the situation, and 1t was not until to-
day that Minister Calhoun was able
to inform the state department that
500 troops would suffice to discharge
the United States obligation. 1t was
near the close of the official day when
the state departments request for the
dispatch of the troops reached the
war department, but cablegram TO
Major General Rell was dispatched
within a few minutes after 1t had been
approved by Secretary Stimson and
signed by Major General Wood. chief
of staff. instructing him TO dispatch
the force, together with hospital
corps detachment. 1t is understood the
Fifteenth infantry will be called upon
to supply the troops. who will be en-
barked on the transport Thomas.
- New Orleans. January II: Bulls
were in complete control of the cot
ton market today. At the highest they
put the trading months in the future
department % to 25 points up, or
one-quarter of cent a pound over
yesterdays close. They put July over
the 10-cent mark and marked spots
up three-sixteenths of a cent pound.
Futures closed for the day at net
advance Of 81 to "a points. The stiff
rise of the days. session caught many
big shorts unawares and their cover
ing operations had not a little to do
with the upward course of prices. Lo-
cal shorts covered from the opening,
when Liverpool was better than eX-
pected, private cables expressed hope