Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-03
Scraps and facts.

taken by habitual drug users.
Whatever action the British gov
eminent takes with regard to cotton
whether it merely be kept out OF
Germany or declared contraband-
the London Spectator, in an editorial
article last Friday, expresses the
opinion that the southern cotton grow
ers of the United States should be
resompensed. The pressure" this
newspaper goes on to say. which the
enormous cotton industry OF the
democratic president Is indeed the
crux Of the situation. 1t may be the
British government will find that a
scheme which it is said to be con-
sidering of compromising American
cotton growers by buying a propor-
ton of their crop over n ABOVE tne
British normal purchases, is
The commercial cotton crop in
the United States for the year ended
last Saturday, amounted to 15,1OS,-
OIL bales, an increase over last year
of 225,51S bales, according to figures
announced today by Secretary Hester
of the New Orleans cotton exchange.
Southern consumption Of cotton 1or
the year, Mr.. Hester stated at 3,16S,-
36S bales, the largest eve used py
Southern mills in any one year. Ihe
figures showing the amount or cotton
brought out into h market Tor n
wear 1914-15 are considered especially
notable in view Of the depression in
cident to the European war and its
effect upon general business on
ditions. According to the statement,
the commercial crop for the present
year exceeded that of year before
last by 1,OO1,S95 bales, but Shove
a decrease under hat Of 1911-12 OF
i. OOO, O7S bales. The record igures
of southern consumption this year
Mr.. Hertes's statement shows, exceeds
last years total by 10000 bales.
Temple Texas, July 81: The burn
ing at the stake here last night Of
Will Stanley, a negro suspected or q
part in the murder of three children
Of w. r. Grimes, hampered the police
today in their efforts to arrest other
persons suspected in the case, The
mob burned Stanley to death when
they found him wearing trousers
which bore the name OF the 1atner
of the murdered children. TWO otner
negroes were taken out OF town by
the police last night and hidden. Just
before being thrown into the flames
Stanley asserted that a white man
had paid him and another negro,
whose name he gave, to go to Grimes
home Wednesday night and kill the
family. Grimes and his wife were
beaten into Inconsistencies and three
Of their six children were slain py
blows from a hammer. Stanley
death last night was watched by many
women and children. The negro tried
six times to get out OF the names, out
chains bound him too firmly. 1t was
believed he was on the point OF giving
further information concerning the
murders when a bullet hred py d
merciful onlooker cut him snort.
Warsaw is ready for the evacua-
ton intimated by h Russian war
minister in his address in the duma.
For DAYS there has been an exodus OF
the population. Factories, government
institutions and hospitals have been
moved and the city has been stripped
Of everything that might be OF mill
tary value to the Teutons. While the
situation Immediately before Warsaw
is reported by Berlin as unchanged,
additional gains by the forces OF the
Teutonic allies are claimed by Berlin
along the Narew in the Iona region
and on the remainder of thath front 10
the Vistula, before Ivangorov n In
numerous sectors in the southeast be-
tween the Vistula and the Bug. The
west Ill Tie AISOllHC lOSiOh SAS
mans in the region of Hill 213 and in
the vicinity of Marie Therese occupied
French trenches after fierce infantry
attacks in the latter Of which they pre-
ceded their forward movement with
the use Of burning oil. Paris admlts
that the Teutons gained a footing In
these trenches, but asserts that IN
counter-attacks the French regained
portions Of their lost territory. In ad-
dition, Paris says that in the Vosges,
the French took several addltlonal
trenches from the Germans and in do
ing so inflicted heavy casualties. Both
Great Britain and Germany have sent
notes to Washington. The British
notes-there are three OF them-deal
with the United States governments
protest concerning German neutral
commerce and the declination Of the
United States to recognize Great Bri-
tain's orders-in-council with regard to
detention Of American godos. The
German note Is q continuation OF the
discussion relating to the sinking OF
the American ship William P. Frye by
a German commerce raider.
- Politicians from the south says a
dispatch to the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, have been busy for the last
week or two in Washington seeking
t undo the plans Of the Postoffice
Department to inaugurate an auto
mobile rural free delivery system in
five southern states August /. That
the Inauguration of an automobile
mail service for the farmer would be
of inestimable benefit has been gen.
orally conceded by farmers and bust
ness men in the sections which would
be served, but the trouble seems to
Isa ~ fha 20 of that tho N a,tp11rafinn
of this system will tend to break down
the fences Of southern senators and
congresSmen who have decided that
their services in Washington are
needed beyond their present terms.
1t is the plan of the Postoffice Depart
ment to establish automobile rural
routes in Georgia, Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and Oklahoma, in the south,
and also in California and Pennsyl-
vania. BY this plan the PoStoffice De-
partment expects to effect a saving
of some 100000 e year in nearly
every state in which the plan will be
tried. The plan includes the con-
solidation Of existing routes which
are covered by horse-drawn vehicles
into a smaller number of routes to be
covered by automobiles. The number
of carriers required to execute the
plan for automobile service will be
about half the number now required
to deliver the mail by horse. Further
more, the men who will deliver by
automobile will in all probability not
be the same men who are now in the
service, for the reason hat one Of
the requirements in the beginning Of
the automobile service, it is under
stood, will be that the automobile
rural route carrier shall furnish his
own automobile.
- Emperor William has issued q
manifesto to the German people on
the occasion of the anniversary of
the outbreak of the war, according
to a dispatch received in Amsterdam
from Berlin and forwarded by the
correspondent of Reuters Telegram
Company. In the manifesto, which
was issued from the main head
quarters of the German army, the
Emperor says: "One year has elapsed
since 1 was obliged to call to arms
the German people. An unprecedent-
ed time Of ~bloodshed has befallen
Europe and the world. Before God
and history my conscience is clear. I
did not will the war. After prepara-
tions for q whole decade the coalition
Powers, to whom Germany had be-
come o. great, believed that the