Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-26
Scraps and facts.

who lives in Kansas City, from a
brother, CASTOR who lives at Quereta-
no, not far from the City Of Mexico.
The letter states the conviction OF
many persons in that vicinity Is that
Felix Diaz was killed treacherously
one day last week. The story Is that
the results Of a public execution were
feared by officials and that they were
equally afraid to let the captive keep
on living. So under pretense Of remov-
ing him to another prison he was put
into a boat and was crossing a lake
when he was shot from behind and
thrown overheard, says the rumor.
The detention system Of punish
ment for naval offenses which has now
been in operation more than a year at
Port ROYAL, S. c., and Puget Sound,
Wash, is credited by Secretary Meyer
in his annual report with having pro-
duced gratifying results. The under
living principle is to avoid degrading
sailors who have been guilty of merely
technical military offenses not involV-
ing moral turpitude, of the violation OF
the general laws Of the country. This
is accomplished by confining this class
of offenders in disciplinary barracks
which are really correctional schools
where the men are allowed to wear
the navy uniform and find their pun
ishment principally in the severity OF
drills and useful work. Aside from the
help given the individual, the detention
system, which operates to reform ma
val offenders who formerly were dis
honorably discharged, accomplishes
financial saving to the government,
which is put to considerable expense to
enlist and equip recruits.
Wytheville, Va, November %: Sid
ma Allen, leader of the clan which shot
up the Carroll county court last
March, killing five persons, was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
today for the killing Of Judge Thorn
ton L. Massie. Punishment was fixed
at fifteen years imprisonment in the
state penitentiary at Richmond. 1t was
announced by the prosecution that he
would be placed on trial under an in
dictment charging him with the muir
der Of Commonwealth Attorney Will
liam E. Foster, another victim Of the
Hillsville. shooting. December was
the date set for the second trial. The
verdict of second degree murder was
returned after the jury had deliberat-
ed nearly eighteen hours. 1t Is under
stood that on the first ballot the jurors
stood five for first degree murder, one
for second degree and six for acquitta!.
Sidna heard the verdict without any
outward sign of emotion. His wife sat
quietly by the prisoners side and was
not visibly affected.
Realizing the possibility Of rapid
and important developments in the
Balkan war, the navy department has
slightly changed the itinerary of the
big cruisers Tennessee and Montana
now on the way to the Orient under
Admiral Knight. The vessels will be
kept in c,ose touch by cable with the
department. Admiral Knight, on the
Tennessee, instead Of going direct from
Gibraltar to Smyrna, has headed first
for Malta, while the Montana, destin-
ed for Beirut, has started for Port Said,
at the entrance of the Suez canal. The
change in the itinerary will make 1t
easier for the cruisers to replenish
their coal bunkers pending the arrival
in the Mediterranean Of the collier Bru-
tus. It was said at the state depart
ment yesterday that there is no present
intention of sending other warships to
reinforce the Tennessee and Montana
in the Mediterranean. European ma
vies are extending all necessary pro-
lection in the larger ports Of Turkey
and the Tennessee and Montana are
required only because Of few Amert-
ports not protected.
party should now prepare for the fight
which will come in 1916, William F.
McCombs. chairman of the Democratic
national committee, stated in Savan-
nah last Friday that the office in New
York would be made permanent, and
offices will be opened in Washington
in a short time. "On my way north
about Monday am going to stop over
in Washington and make the plans for
the opening of the office there, ne
said. AT that time I will also take up
the details of the inaugural parade, of
which !, as chairman, will be one Of thl
directors. Mr.. McCombs, in explaining
his reason for planning to open perma-
nent offices for the national committee
at Washington and maintain perma-
net offices at New York said: With
offices in these cities, the committee
will be an active factor in the party
and will at all times be at work There
is a great deal of work that can be done
by 1t in the next four years and with
this committee hard at work keeping
in touch with the affairs of the coun-
try, I see no reason why the Demo-
cratic party should not remain in pow
er for twenty years. In my opinion 1t
is impossible for party or a commit
tee to pick up the tangled skein Of po-
litical affairs in two or three months
for a campaign and do efficient work"
NO serious fighting, says London
dispatch of Sunday, is reported on the
Tchatalja lines, where both sides ap-
pear to be waiting the issue of the ar
mistice negotiations. Meanwhile all
the necessary dispositions are being
made for a resumption of the war
should the negotiations fail. Bulgaria
is shipping her forces from Saloniki in
Greek transports, presumably for
transfer to Gallipoh peninsula, where
Turkey is also strengthening her forces
by Anatolian troops. Here an attempt
the Greek fleet, to take the Darda-
nelles. The rest Of the allied forces
liberated in Macedonia, will be sent by
rail as speedily as possible to REIN
force the Bulgarians attacking the
Tchatalja lines. Their places will be
taken by the Bulgarian 1912 recruits
who, after three weeks training are
being drafted into Macedonia for gar
rison duty. The only news of military
importance tonight is the occupation
of Ochrida, a large town near Monas-
tir, by the Servians. The positions at
Adrianople and Scutari is apparently
at Vienna continue to deny the report
ed war preparations. Letters from
Vienna have reached London. howev-
er, confirming the reports that the
strength of the six different army
corps is being increased and that a
large number Of reservists have been
called out.
Attainment of a four billion dollar
foreign trade by the United States In
1912 will be one of the most noteworthy
factors for historians to record at the
beginning of the new year. In announc-
ing the totals of the export and import
trade of the country for the ten months
ending with October, the bureau of do
mestic and foreign commerce yester-
day stated the foreign commerce would
reach this enormous total by the end
of December. Its highest former record
was $3,626,000 900 in 1911. 1t crossed
the three billion dollar line for ths
first time in 1906 and passed two bill
lion in 1899. Imports in the ten months
apparent that the imports of the full.
year will approximate $1.S00,000,000
and the exports $780, 100000, totalling
$4,l00 100000. Imports have practical
ly doubled in value since 1901 and ex-
ports have practically doubled since
1904. The exports of domestic products
which had never touched the two-bil-