Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-06

company, ana NJ. =. braHCIl' VI the
banking firm Of Thomas Branch & Co,
Richmond, has been elected in his
stead
The Farmers Union warehouse OF
BarnweI, was destroyed by fire about
8 o'clock, Tuesday night. The build
ing contained $50 bales of cotton in
sured for $4,000. The origin of the
fire is not known.
- Thomas ]. Boyd, former cashier of
the Bank of Spartanburg, has been
elected city clerk and treasurer OF
Spartanburg, to succeed the late j. b,
Carlisle. Mr.. Boyd was elected on the
first ballot over ten other applicants.
- There was much excitement in the
little town of Gray Court, Monday,
when a letter threatening to burn the
town was received there. The letter
which was unsigned, was addressed TO
Merchants of Gray Court.
- Mrs. S. P. Matthews. wife of one OF
the wealthiest and most prominent
Greenwood county farmers, was burn
ed to death Monday night, when her
clothing in some unknown manner be-
came ignited.
The William ]. Burns Internation-
al Detective agency Of New YORK.
proposes to open an office In lhe
Union National bank building OF Co.
lumbia. Papers of domestication nave
already been filed with the secretary
Of state.
The South Carolina sinking fund
commission on Tuesday, made ar
raneements to borrow S110,S4S.52 the
amount necessary to cover approprla.. l..
tions made by the special session OF
the legislature The money was bor-
roWed from the Palmetto Natlonal
bank of Columbia, until February l.,
at 6 per cent. S. T. Carter, state
treasurer, A. w. Jones, comptroller
and Neils Christensen and Geo. W..
Dick, Of the sinking fund commls,
sion, signed the notes Gov. Blease dld
not attend the meeting.
British and French ships partici-
pated few days ago in the lombard
ment Of the forts that protect the
mouth Of the Dardanelles. The bonn
bardment was kept up for some hours,
and the Turkish forts replied Vigor-
ously; but were not quite able to reach
the attacking ships. Only few or the
shells fell near enough TO suggest the
possibility of damage. 1t is stated that
a great cloud of black smoke that en-
yeloped one Of the forts indicated that
il must have been destroyed or oadiy
injured by an explosion caused by the
fire from the SnlpS.
- Sheriff Hendrix Rector of Green
Vile, has been cited to appear before
Judge S. W. G. Shipp, in the sessions
court at Greenville, Monday, to show
why he should not be adjudged in con-
tempt of court by reason of an article
which he gave out for publication, and
which appeared in a Greenville paper
last Sunday. The article referred TO
the recent presentment Of the grand
Jury in which the sheriff was repri-
manded by that body. In the course OF
his article, Sheriff Rector said that the
Jury was actuated by personal feenng'
and that one man not member or the
Jury, played a prominent part in the
affair.
There was an important engage
ment between German and British
fleets off Coronel, Chile, last Sunday,
as the result of which the British We're
defeated. The British ships were the
Glasgow, the Monmouth, the Good
Hope and the Otranto. The Germans
were the Gneisenau, the Scharnhorst
the Nurnbarg, the Leipsic and the
Dresden. Admiral Grof was in com
mand of the Germans and Sir Chris
topher Craddock in command OF the
British. The fight lasted thirty min
utes. during which the Monmouth was
sunk and the Glasgow and Good Hope
were badly damaged. The Glasgow
took refuge in the harbor OF Coroner
and was bottled up there. The Otran-
to escaped. There were six wound
ed on the Gneisenau; but the German
admiral claims that none OF MS ships
were seriously damaged.
- The German submarine U.s., which
sank the British cruiser Abouklr'
Hogue, Cressy and Hawke, is IN a
disabled condition, fifteen miles off the
north coast of Holland, according to
a dispatch from Rotterdam. The IA
nous submarine was disabled by her
screw getting caught in trawler net.
A Dutch steam trawler which arrived
at Pjmiden, reports that, while hsh-
ing in the North sea, she was dragged
along by an unseen force and nearly
capsized Suddenly the vessel appear
ed on the surface, caught In the
trawler's net. The submarine sent up
u rocket and the net lines were cut
The little fighting vessel then dis
appeared. The submarine thus dis
abled was the most destructive instru-
ment the Germans have used against
the British navy. Single e-handed, she
torpedoed and sank the four British
cruisers, causing loss OF 2,4OO Brit
ish officers and men.
Mr.. E. w. Thompson, formerly of
the Charlotte Observer, but recently
appointed commercial attache Of the
American embassy at Berlin, is III
Washington, waiting a favorable op-
portunity to go to his post in Berlin.
Mr.. II. f. c. Bryant, Washington cor
respondent of the Charlotte Observer,
asked Mr. Thompson on Wednesday,
why Great Britain took so much cot
ton seed and cotton seed oil last
month. Great Britain makes nor
mally about 100000 tons OF artificial
butter" said Mr.. Thompson. She puts
in that butter either cotton seed or
peanut oil. The French supply OF pea
nut oil has been interfered with by the
war Cotton seed oil is taking its place.
| look for cotton seed to increase in
price as the war goes on. Holland
makes $4,000 tons of butter in which
she uses 10000 barrels of cotton seed
oil or peanut oil. Denmark is coming
to the United States for great guam
titles of cotton seed oil cake to take
the place of the suntlOwer cake she has
been getting from Russia.
A Paris letter in the Analysist pre-
sents the estimate of former Minister
Yves Guyot, the noted French econo-
mist. on the costs of the European con-
T. let and its effect on savings. Mr..
Guyot thinks that at the end of six
months the number of men engaged
will be: Three million Germans, p
100000 Austrians, or 100000 in the
camp of Frances enemies. Three
million Frenchmen and 100000 Rus
slams will oppose them, being 1000,
600 in all, without reckoning England
and not counting the smaller units in
the Balkans. on this basis and at an
estimated cost of $3.50 day per head,
every fighting day destroys at least
$50, 900, 600, and six months outlay
would reach s5,4O0,OOO,00O. The an
nual capacity for saving of the various
nations involved is placed at $780,
100000 for France, 1,250,OO0,OOO for
Germany and s1,6O0,O00,00O for Eng
land, a total of s3,600,0 100000, equal to
the cost of four months warfare. But
fighting nations do not only cease
from saving; they also stop paying
their way, and Mr.. Guyot places the
losses through curtailment of product
i've power at SS,S00, 100000. The dam
age done to human machinery he esti-
mates at $3.6O0, ,000 900, making total
Joss at capital account Of $l6,OOO,OOO,- =
900 a year.