Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-02

from the United States supreme court
as to whether it is criminal offense
to exploit the stamp business. The
government on Tuesday, docketed in
court an appeal from the action of
the Federal district court in Massa-
chusetts, quashing an indictment
against Harold A. Foster, Frank T..
Winchell, William s. Edwards and
Henry H. Platt, of conspiracy to swell
stamp sales at Brookfield, Mass.
where Foster was postmaster. Ed
wards and Platt were merchants In
New York. Winchell was charged
with purchasing large amounts OF
stamps for them from Foster. Foster
was charged with failing to report
these sales as unusual sales, which are
taken out of the amount upon Wnlcn
salaries are computed. The district
court held that it was not criminal
offense not to report the sales as un-
usual.
- A revolt of three regiments Of the
Chinese army under the leadership OF
Gen. Yang Hu Pin was reported al
Pekin last Monday, from Tali-Fu, IN
the far southwestern province Of Yum
nan, about 100 miles from the from
tier of Burma. The soldiers on De-
cember 8, shot down their officers
raided the armory, killed professor
and several students OF the Chinese
university, and then proclaimed the
independence of the province in the
name Of DR.. Sun Vat Sen, former pro-
visional president of China No for
eigners were molested and the mutt.
neers themselves protected the chapel
belonging to the China Inland MIS-
sion. the school attached to which was
soon filed with wounded and dying
Panic reigned for a fortnight in the
city. but a force of loyal troops ar
rived. stormed and recaptured the
city and routed the mutineers. Yang
HUI Fin was surprised and burned to
death in a house where he was hiding
in q neighboring village. The sur
rounding country is said to be terror
lied by the remaining mutineers
Troops have been sent to restore or
der.
Search yesterday by Chicago po-
lice and hospital authorities, failed TO
disclose any clue to 35 milligrams OF
radium, believed lost or stolen sever
al days ago when being used IN the
treatment of a cancer patient. Unless
the person having the precious paru-
Gle Of radium-it is half the size or a
pins head and is worth $4,500-in his
possession, knows how to protect him
self from its influence it may kill him.
according to hospital physicians. IT,
instead Of being stolen, 1t is mislalu'
IL will declare it's presence by lts IN
fluence on whatever substances are
near. The speck of radium was I'M
ported from France by st. Luke's nos
pital. It was kept in platinum cap
sule an eighth Of an inch in diameter
and three-quarters or an lncn long.
It's last appearance known to the nos
pital staff was when the capsule was
placed in an incision in the arm or a
woman patient After several treat
ments 1t was found that the capsule
was inactive The capsule was open
ed and it was found that the radium
was gone. 1t would be impossible 10
sell the missing bit of radiuffl, 1t IS
said. as a record is kept Of every par
ticle known to exist in the world.
Social conditions in the United
States are tending to develop in the
negro a racial consciousness and TO
organize a negro nationality, declared
Robert e. Park, of the University OF
Chicago, last Tuesday, before the
American Sociological society, whlch
is meeting in Atlanta, Ga, with tne
American Economic association. Inc
nationalizing tendency among negroes
is the result Of white mans ostraclsm
of their black brother" said Prof.
Park. He adversely criticised public
utterances Of Senator Vardaman OF
Mississippi, and Governor Blease0t o
South Carolina. ContinuipScie said:
"a race which has attS1led the char
acter Of a nationally may still retain
it's loyalty to-the state Of which 1t is
-part,-b1f only so far as that state
incorporates the practical interests,
the aspirations and the ideals OF tnat
nationality. In the south, the races
seem to be tending in the direction OF
a bi-racial organization or society, in
which the negro is gradually gaining d
limited autonomy. One OF the most
important effects Of this isolation has
been to establish a common interest,"
among all the different colors ana
classes of the race. This sense OF SOL
idarity is stronger in the south, Where
segregation is more complete, tnan In
the north, where twenty years ago, II
would have been safe to say that 1t DID
not exist. No doubt kindly relations
between individual members OF the
races exist in the south, and to an eX-
tent not known in the north. AS
rule, 1t will be found these kindly re-
lations had their origin in slavery.
Men who have given the tone TO point
ical discussion in the southern states
in recent years are men who did not
own slaves" The sociological society
on Tuesday afternoon, elected Edward
Rose Of the University OF Wisconsin
president.
The year 1913, says New York
dispatch, will be long remembered as
one of the dullest in almost a decade.
Compared with 1912, when stock and
bond sales aggregated 130,735,700
shares and $672,000,000 respectively,
this year shows a decrease in stock
sales of 44,70O,0O0 shares, and in
bonds of $l70,000,000. The recent
squirt of activity at a higher price lev
ell, with an increased demand Tor
bonds and other investment issues,
has given rise to q hope that recov-
cry is under way. OF the LOO mem
bers of the stock exchange, it is estl-
mated that less than half are actively
engaged in the market and probably
one-fifth of the whole may be classed
as "traders''-brokers who buy or sell
almost exclusively for their own &C
count. The rest OF the active mem
bership consists of the commission
houses, many of which once had
extensive out-of-town connections
These accessories, whose maintenance
involved heavy financial outlay, gen.
erally have been abandoned and also
have many branch offices formerly
maintained in uptown New York and
in adjacent cities. Not only have many
commission houses failed to make eX-
penses during the year, but sub
stantial percentage of the trading ell
ement frequently found itself whip.
sawed" whether on the long or shor,
side, by reason of the markets mar
row character. The year has witness
ed many Withdrawals from the
street" although these have beer
less numerous than was expected
few weeks ago. Among the firms
which wound up their affairs with the
end of the year were two of the high
est standing. not only as brokers, bu
in the foreign exchange and CONNER
cial fields as well. OF the so-calleC
market leaders or speculative favor
ties, which number scarcely more thai
half a dozen, only Reading today wa
on a parity with it's price of a yea
ago. others were from to 20 points
under, while Canadian Pacific ant
New Haven were lower by more thar
so points each.
Banks that enter the Federal re
serve system do not need to take ou
new charters, both state and nationa
hanks become members by maxim!