Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-10

- Winston-S Salem, n. c., August Z:
At Ills o'clock tonight Judge E. B.
Cline, of the superior court, having
received the verdict Of the jury-mur-
der in the first degree-condemned
Mrs. Ida Ball Warren M Samuel
Preston Christy to death in the cleo
trio chair Friday, September "a. for
the murder Of G.. j. Warren, husband
of Mrs. Warren. Clifton Stonestreet,
found guilty Of being an accessory al
ter the fact, was sentenced to three
years in states prison. An appeal
was taken, filed for the defendants as
paupers. Mrs. Warren stood erect
until the words fixing the date were
uttered, then, with a quick, nervous
Jerk, sank into her chair, dropping for
a minute, and then resuming apparent
calmness. In the event Mrs. Warren
is ~electrocuted, she will be the first
woman to go to the chair in this state
and, it Is said, the second woman ever
to pay the death penalty in North
Carolina. Warren was missed from
his home here after August Is, Of last
year. and his body was found in Mud
dy creek, Forsyth county, last April.
Christy, during the interim, had gone
back to Texas, where he had lived for
years with Mrs. Warren, and hence the
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Christy, alias Kearns, eloped with
Warren.
The Manchester, England, Guar
dian, in an article on the British
American notes concerning the block
ade, says: "A great deal depends on
our meeting the American point OF
view, If We can. What should we lose
if we did meet 1t? OF neutral ports
there could be no blockade, but We
might extend the doctrine Of continu-
Gus voyage so as to secure the right to
intercept all c~ontraband imported
through neutral ports for German use.
We might go further and extend our
list Of contraband TO cover cotton and
conceivably even foodstuffs imported
through neutral ports for Germany,
and still u action would lie within
forms Of international law and give
he United States no ground for pro-
test. 1t would remove the screen
which We are placing between Ger
many and the full gale Of American
indignation over her inhumane out
RACES on law. 1t would keep up, so
far as 1t can be kept up with justice
to ourselves, the distinction between
civilian and belligerent use OF ar
ticles of commerce. Lastly, and most
important, it might lay the founda-
ton Of that active friendship with
America which, whatever happens in
this war, must be a necessity Of any
sound British foreign policy in the
future"
New Orleans, August Z: In a final
report on the cotton crop Of 1914-15, II.
G. Hester, secretary Of the New Or
leans cotton exchange, shows that
while 1000, 900 bales were grown, The
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bales and that the value Of the crop,
including seed, vas $749,3S4,97s as
against $1,134,444,114 for the preceding
crop. The crop is spoken Of as run
ming remarkably ever in grade, aver
aging middling, without a Super-abun-
dance of either the higher or the lower
grades. The average price per pound
for middling during the year was 7.94
cents against 13.49 the preceding year.
A feature Of the report concerning the
use Of linters, which enter into the
manufacture of explosives. From a
monthly average of $1,000 bales Of lint
ers during the first half Of the season,
the consumption jumped to 10000 bales
during the second half. There was an
increase Of $4,000 bales over last years
whole season consumption. During
the period Of low prices both northern
and southern spinners bought freely,
their average takingS being 6,354,OOO
bales, a new high record. The con-
sumption in the southern group Of
mills exceeding the previous record
made last year by 100000 bales. The
south consumed 3,163,000 bales, the
north 2,61S,00O and the entire world
4,134,0 600. Dividing the commercial
with 4,619,0 900 bales, and Georgia comes
second with 2,440,0 O0. Dividing con-
sumption in the south, North Caro-
lima leads with 91S,192 bales, South
Carolina being second with S25,S3S.
The maximum consumption in the
south occurred in June when the off,
take was 100000 bales.
Rear Admiral Caperton, command
ing the American naval forces in
Hayti, reported last Sunday that he
had taken over the administration OF
the customs office at Cape Haytian
and had placed Paymaster Charles
Morris Of the cruiser Washington,
temporarily in charge. No mention
was made Of the reported seizure OF
the customs office at Port Au Prince.
Business conditions in Cape Haytian,
the dispatch said, were improving, and
there was an apparent disposition
among the natives to support the city
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miral Caperton. The admirals dis
patch reported the arrival Of the
Haytien gunboat Nord Alexis at Port
Au Prince with 500 disarmed Haytien
soldiers who were escorted to their
homes by the American marines after
pledging themselves to keep the peace.
"A conference which was believed
to nave had an important bearing on
efforts to restore peace in Mexico, was
held in Washington last Saturday by
Secretary Of State Lansing, and Sec
rotary of the Treasury McAdoo. Cues
tiOns arising from the recent pam
American financial conference also
are said to have been taken up. Be-
fore leaving for Washington Mr.. Ian
sing declined to make any statement.
Mr. McAdoo was summoned to New
York from Maine to meet Mr.. Lam
sing. The two cabinet members were
together for several hours. Much in
terest was attached to the meeting be-
cause of the report that Mr.. McAdoo
who had seen President Wilson at
Cornish, during the week, vas sup
posed to convey to Mr.. Lansing the
presidents exact ideas regarding plans
to bring the warning Mexican leaders
together. There were reports that the
object Of the meeting was to arrange
nnanCldl measures necessary 10 eSldD-
lish a stable government in the south
ern republic. On these and other mat
tiers, Mr.. Lansing declined to talk. Il
have absolutely nothing to say was
his answer to all questions.
- Philip c. Wadsworth of Texas City,
Texas, was arrested in a brokerage
office in New York last Saturday,
charged with using the mails in a
scheme to defraud. Wadsworth in
April, 1912, promoted the sale Of the
stock Of the Cotton Growers Co
Operative society of Alabama, a $780,
900, 900 corporation. Wadsworth was
arraigned before a United States COM
missioner and held in $500 bond for
a hearing on August &c. He was ar
rested on an indictment returned by a
Federal grand jury at Atlanta, Ga.
The general offices of the Cotton Grow
ers' society were in Atlanta. The in
dictment against Wadsworth charges
tina the charter was f~raudulently OBJ
tanned; that no part Of the capital
stock was subscribed for at the time
the application was made, and that 1t
neve was intended to have a capital
stock of $50, 600, 900. 1t further al
leges that letters mailed at Atlanta by