Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-08
Scraps and facts.

you don't really want to sell anything,
don't flash any offers around these
Kansas farmers, out here in the wheat
belt 4 Hutchison man left his auto
mobile standing in front Of the Elks
club today. A farmer came up.
What will you take for your car q
he asked. The city man thought he
was joking. "Oh. $400," he replied
The farmer whipped out four one
hundred dollar spots and forked them
over. A farmer stepped into Hutch
ison music house today. He heard a
music box" grinding away in cor
ner. He was told 1t was worth $3.50.
He pulled out a check book and
bought it on the spot.
Dispatches from Petrograd say
that II Is officially announced that the
Russians have overwhelmingly defeat
ed three Turkish army corps in the
Russian Caucasus. These three corps
had invaded and overrun the southern
Caucasus during the week or two pre-
vious, and according to the Russian
account one army corps was captured
entire, together with its officers, and
the two others were so badly beaten as
be put into q complete rout. 1t had
been given out that 1t was the purpose
Of the Turks to invade Egypt after
but now since this defeat there ap-
pears to be no longer any probability
Of such invasion.
market, Tuesday, for $1.36i a bushel,
the highest January price in more
than forty years. In consequence, top
grades Of flour were advanced 55 cents
a barrel, and quoted at $7.15. The
abnormal European demand for
breadstuffs was held responsible for
the rise. Second quality flour that
sold for $3.50 last week, was quoted
at $3.50 a barrel Wednesday, Flour
that on Wednesday commanded $7.1b,
sold in August for $3.50. Waves Of
buying on change carried the chief
speculative wheat option, May deliv-
cry, up to $1.37s, leap Of more than
10 cents in a week, and 8 cents or
more above Tuesday night. Many
brokers declared the May option
would 20 far beyond the s1.S5 record
established in 1898 at the time Of the
Letter deal. Several predicted ~
wheat. On the other hand. export
buying came to at least temporary
halt Tuesday so far as Chicago was
concerned, though not at the sea-
board. 1t also was a fact that great
numbers Of speculative traders, in
cluding many so-called eleventh-hour
bulls, were content to realize profits
and get out Of the market.
Rewards Of q farmer are measured
in the products his farm furnishes him
directly rather than in dollars and
cents, according to the department OF
agriculture in a statement issued last
Tuesday, on the results Of an investi-
CATION concerning the farmers In
come. The average farmer receives
little more money for his years work
than he would be paid II he hired him
self out as farmland, the investiga-
ton shows. IN other words, though
he Is in business for himself, the aver
ward for his labors and the risk and
responsibility he has assumed. The
average value Of the chief necessities
Of life-food, fuel, oil, shelter-used
each year by the farm family, was
$5s5.0s. OF these necessities, estimat-
ed in money, the portion contributed
directly by the farm was $421.17, leav-
ing necessities to the value Of $173.91
to be purchased by the farmer. OF
the food consumed, 63 per cent was
furnished by the farm, which varied
considerably in different sections. II
was greatest in North Carolina. where
farms supplied 1873 per cent Of the
food consumed, while the average In
New York was only 50.4. In view OF
the present economic crisis in the
south, the department points out, this
fact Is regarded as Of particular sig
nificance, since it demonstrates the
extent to which, with proper system
Of agriculture. southern farms could
be made self-sustaining.
The worst accident in ten years
history Of New York's subway occur
red during the rush hours early We'd
nesday when 700 passengers in two
stalled trains were stricken with panic
in the darkened tubes by dense smoke
and fumes from a short circuited ca
BILE. In the struggle to escape some
200 persons were injured, one, a wo-
man, fatally. Others overcome were
rescued, unconscious, by the police
and firemen, while scores struggled to
the street unnerved or hysterical,
their clothing torn and faces blacken-
ed by smoke. The city was plunged
in the throes of a transportation
blockade without parallel in its his
tory. 1t was not until late in the aft
ernoon that a wheel again turned In
the subway and then only a limited
local service was maintained. The
the subway ordinarily carries were
diverted to elevated and surface lines
and when the home-bound rush be-
gan at night, neither system had ade-
quate facilities. There were no sub
way trains running to Brooklyn and
a dense mass Of humanity, concen-
trating at the Brooklyn bridge, pro-
longed the rush hour for two hours in
struggle to board trains and cars.
The accident occurred between the
Fifth and Fifty-ninth street stations
and called out virtually the entire fire
and ambulance service on Manhattan
island The two trains. an express
and a local, both packed, came to
stop midway between the stations
and the lights went out. A large feed
cable had blown out in its conduit,
some fifty yards distant, and soon the
cars were filled with the fumes of
burning rubber. This soon became
unbearable and 1t took little to start
panic in the darkness. The demands
of some Of the passengers that the
doors be opened were refused by the
guards, II was said. Fights ensued
and there soon was in progress on
both trains a desperate struggle to
get out. When the first of the panic
stricken passengers reached the street,
the report spread lIdl many ntu DeSI
killed. Police and firemen quickly
reached the scene. and although it
was at length established that the re-
ports were exaggerated, they were
busy more than three hours in the res
cue work. They found in the trains
many passengers. mostly women, half
asphyxiated. Others had collapsed on
the floor of the tube. Some were
brought up by ladders through man
holes and some through ventilating
apertures in the street. Nearby thea
tres apd stores were used as Temporal
~ hospitals. Some of the injured
were reported in q serious condition
Wednesday night. Miss Ella Brady,
the only person who lost her life, died
in an ambulance. The lives of several
were undoubtedly saved by the use of
pulmotors. physicians said.
The British house of lords met on
Wednesday, month earlier than the
house Of commons, chiefly to hear from
Lord Kitchener a review of the mill
tary operations for the six weeks since
parliament was prorogued. While the
speech of the secretary Of war con-
tained little not already known, it was
listened to with rapt attention by 4
distinguished gathering. The peers as
usual were in their robes of office but