Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-04

trouble, Il Is claimed, arose from the
indiscretion Of prisoner who boasted
to the other captives that ne was
about to be released. This angereo
his comrades who attacked him. The
guards interviewed, but were over,
powered. The reserves were summoned
and when they reached the scene they
found 1000 prisoners advancing, arm
ed with bricks, sticks and stones. The
reserves fixed bayonets, charged them
double quick and soon subdued the
mutineers. The ring leaders were ar
rested and placed in solitary con-
f!nement. Only one man was seriously
injured in the melee.
New York, December 8: The re-
suits of the comprehensive study OF the
effects of the European war on busi-
ness throughout the United states,
gained from the reports received from
more than 600 correspondents, includ-
ing governors, mayors, officials OF
unions, industrial associations, banks
and building associations, will be mace
at the 18th annual meeting OF the Ma
tional Civic federation, which begins
here tomorrow. The report says tnat
conditions are improving and predicts
that a further advance toward pros
perity will be witnessed during the
next few months. The report was pre-
pared by John II. Hammond, chair
man of the committee who handled the
investigation, and strikes a gloomy
note in speaking Of the unemployed.
It states that the country will be con-
fronted this winter by a situation
which will demand extraordinary
philanthropic efforts"
Provisional President Gutierrez will
enter Mexico City tomorrow and be
installed in the national palace there,
according to official kilograms reach
ing the state department, yesterday.
Gen. Villa is at Tacuba, suburb or
Mexico City, where 1t is believed he
conferred with Gen. Zapata. All re-
ports t. the state department indicate
that the two military chiefs are
working in harmony in support OF
Gutierrez. Geo. C. Carothers, Ameri-
can consular agent, who mas peen &C
companying Villa, reported his ar
rival in Mexico City, and will care for
American interests together with the
Brazilian minister and John r. Sill
man. The latest dispatches from
Tampico to the state department, say
the Carranza forces have reoccupied
Panuco, which had previously been In
the hands Of bandits. The reports add
ed that the CarranZa garrison was
maintaining order and had given guar
antees to foreigners that they would
not be disturbed.
General disarmament and UNIVERSAL
peace will not follow the European
war, and the United States may have
trouble with the winner, were the pre-
dictions made by George B. Mcclellan
former mayor Of New York, and now
professor Of economic history IN
Princeton University, in an address at
Princeton, N. j., Tuesday night: NO
matter who WINS" said Prof. McClel-
Ian, 1T is almost certain that at some
not far distant date we shall be con-
fronted with the alternative Of aband-
oning the Monroe doctrine or fighting
to maintain it. If we fight for it in our
present unprepared condition, there
can be but one outcome. A triumphant
and victorious Germany would nave
little to fear from us, and while we
possibly might check Japan by hersef,
we scarcely could hope to do so if she
received help" The cause Of war, &C
cording to Prof Mcclellan, is the
spirit Of nationality which has seized
all Of Europe, and the present war can
not be charged against any one man or
any group Of men. Prof. Mcclellan
made a strong appeal that Americans
awake to their present condition OF
unpreparedness and that immediate
steps be taken to build up national
defence.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke, American
minister to the Netherlands. back
from his post on a months leave, de-
scribed to Secretary Bryan, Tuesday,
the earnest desire of Queen Wilhelmina
and the people Of Holland for the early
ending Of the European war. Doctor
Van Dyke denied an oft-published re-
port that he was the bearer Of per-
sonal letter from the queen, relating to
peace, but said he had reported to Mr..
BRYAN merely ION the state Of mind
of the people Of Holland and conditions
generally in Europe as he had studied
them. After talking with Secretary
Bryan for an hour, DR.. Van Dyke in
dicated clearly that the present did not
seem a propitious moment to put Tor
ward definite proposals for terms OF
peace. THE desire of the United
States for peace" he said, lis well
known. The decision as to the proper
moment for us to act is in the hands or
nv chiefs. The president and the sec
retary of state can be trusted to de-
termine when that moment arrives.
The minister expressed the nope that
when the time for the settlement or the
war arrived, the United States would
He was also sure that the heart of Hol-
land would be with the United States
in such efforts.
Spartanburg dispatch Of December
l, to the Charlotte Observer: How
monkey and an Italian with hand
organ intervened to prevent series
of personal encounters between men,
bers Of the South Carolina Methodist
conference on the streets of Sumter,
where that body met last week, is be-
ing told by members returning TO
Spartanburg today. The seat of the
trouble was the so-called Nettles case,
which is a controversy that has arisen
in that body over the removal OF Rev.
S. A. Nettles from the editorship OF
the Christian Advocate, the confer
ence paper, published at GreenVille.
Stephen Nettles of Greenville, son
of Rev. S. A. Nettles, had attacked
Rev. a. ]. Cauthen, formerly presid-
ing elder of this district, but now
stationed at Dillon, on the street,
landing a blow on his face. it is said.
Mr.. Cauthen responded with a blow
and suddenly the street took on the
fight scene. Rev. S. A. Nettles him
self was on the verge of being drawn
into the difficulty by bystander who
had criticised his sons action severely,
and there was general confusion when
the monkey and the Italian developed
in the very centre of the disturbance.
Perfectly oblivious of the impending
events, the Italian ground out his
tune and the monkey bowed. The
humor of the situation saved the day.
Boston, December /: 1t will doubt
less be interesting news to Captain
Cair Won Muller, the intrepid COM
mander of the famous German cruiser
Emden. when he learns in far-off
Australia, where he was taken after
his commerce raider was sunk, that
the British steamship kabinga, which
he sent to the bottom, theoretically
$50 miles off Calcutta, but which he
really turned over as a gift TO the
shippers wife, Mrs. Gertrude Robin
son, has been given back to the owners
The Kabinga. in from Colombo and
Calcutta. with a valuable cargo. to
which also Mrs Robinson might make
claim. was warped into a berth at
Mystic today. Mrs. Robinson was at
once surrounded by inquirers as to
what she purposed to do with the yes
sci that Captain Won Muller had given
to her. The German commander had
spared the Kabinga because Mrs. Rob-
inson and her 4-year-old son were on
board. He was too gallant to make
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