Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-14

the street railway dis
missal of two conductors for alleged
stealing.
Charley Logan, a negro who was
convicted in Abbeville last week of the
murder Of Mrs. Scott near Lowndes-
willie March 16, has been sentenced to
be electrocuted on october Is.
In the Orangeburg court of gener-
al session last Saturday Peter BYRD,
a we'll known white man Of Branch
vile, was found guilty Of assault and
battery Of a high and aggravated
nature upon q 1~1-year-old white girl
and was sentenced to nine months i'm
prisonment.
The dead body Of a young white
man, supposed to be that of Chancey
Hildreth of North Carolina, was found
beside the railroad track near Tim
m%onsville early Saturday morning. The
man is supposed to have fallen of an
excursion train which was returning
from Columbia.
In a decision written by Associate
Justice Watts Saturday, the supreme
court affirmed the decision Of the
lower court in awarding Forest New
son, a young boy 5000 damages
for injuries received while at work in
the mill of the F. w. Poe Manufac-
turing Company Of Greenville. The
boy was employed as a sweeper and
was injured about n Of his hands.
The life story of Frederick Burton,
an aged resident of Bradford, England,
which came u at the inquest held
over his body last week, is as follows:
AS a young schoolmaSter he fell In
love with a girl whose parents refused
their consent to a marriage. Heart,
broken, Burton became a hermit and
lived in a cave for fifty years. During
this time he lived up to a vow that
he would never inhabit a house, sleep
in a bed or shave himself. Only on
one occasion did he absent himself
from his cave and that was In order to
find out what had become Of his form
er love. He discovered that the girl
had married a man Of her fathers
choosing, who had ~squandered her
fortune, kicked her to death and paid
for his crime on the scaffold. One
Of the London papers comments that
If a fiction writer had used such a
plot he would be accused Of gross X
aggeration and Of being untrue to life.
United States troops in the lower
Rio Grande valley were held ready for
instant action tonight as a result of
a carefully planned attack by 80 Mex
Sollo Co1iy lOuuy oh NV oii " "
cavalry patrol near the river, accord
ing to a Brownsville, Tex, dispatch of
last night. Although surprised and
surrounded, the ten troops of Troop
A, Twelfth United States cavalry,
made a spectacular defense and fore
ed their ~assailants to retire. The
American soldiers lost two killed and
two slightly wounded. Two Mexicans
seen to fall during the battle were
@--..l 80 H., LAs. @4~o~alr Tho
Americans killed were Private Antho-
ny Kraft of Detroit. and Harold B..
Forney Of W~atertown, N. Y. The
camp of the American soldiers whare
the fight took place was located in a
grove of ebony trees surrounding a
shed in a ranch corral. The attack
was made and volleys were exchanged
briskly for 80 minutes. The attack
ing party then withdrew, escaping in
the brush. The Mexicans showed a
thorough familiarity with the country
about the camp, and Major Anderson,
Twelfth cavalry, sale tonight he was
positive many of them lived on the
American side Of the line. Five Mex
leans living at the ranch house near
the scene Of the fight were arrested
and taken to San Benito. State peace
officers who searched American houses
in the vicinity, collected two wagon
loads of arms, but it was said found
nothing to onnec my American
with the fight. Many old-fashioned
firearms in possession Of MexicanS
were seized and destroyed.
-Spartanburg Journal, Monday: By
declaring that an embargo on NUM-
tons would be a way to bring Great
Britain and her allies to terms as re-
CARDS the interference with neutral
commerce and by severely condemn
ing American citizens who ride Of
belligerent ships, Congressman E. Y.
Webb rather surprised many in an
address he delivered yesterday after
Don on the courthouse lawn to prob
ably 500 people. The big audience
was soon held by the speaker at close
attention and applause, at times Wig
orous, was frequently given to stir
ring passages. The speaker began by
reviewing briefly h swift and extra
ordinary growth Of this country from
the status of a baby nation in Wash
ington's time to that Of a leader to-
day among the nations of the world.
This growth, he said, had been achiev-
ed without wars Of conquest or COM
mercial expansion. He pronounced a
severe condemnation of war as a hor-
rible and futile method of settling
mems differences. If the men who
fOment and initiate wars were a
to go first to the front themselves
there would be few wars. Represen-
tative Webb then developed his views
on this country's troubles with the
warning powers of Europe. He con-
sidered that Germany's offenSeS had
scarcely equalled Great Britain's and
that her reply to the presidents Lu-
sitania note had seemed pretty fair in
its proposals. On the other hand,
Great Britain had pursued a policy
both illegal and hurtful to neutral
commerce and had stubbornly refused
to respond to American protests. He
pointed out that, while compelling
Russia to abstain in 1905 from declar-
ing cotton exports to Japan contra
band, yet now she herself declared it
contraband. 1t was at this point that
Mr.. Webb developed and argued the
suggestion that the government threat
en- England with an embargo on all
munitions of war, stating that he had
recently proposed this to Secretary
Lansing. This move, he said, would
quickly bring the Allies to terms. He
was of the opinion that this policy
would gain the point and avoid any
need for or danger of war.
The New York Times of September
s, prints h following dispatch from
Berlin: DR.. Charles B. Banks, a
Wv ia NNS AAeA '"AN
school, who is now serving on ships
carrying horses and mules to England,
sends to relatives in Lowell a story
of the sinking Of a submarine which
may have been the n that sent the
Arabic to the bottom. DR.. Banks was
on the NicoSian, carrying horses and
mules, which was attacked by a sub
marine close to where the Arabic was
sunk. A patrol boat. flying the
American flag. approached the subma-
rine, according to DR.. Banks, then
dropped the Stars and Stripes, a
up a white flag and opened fire. sink
ing the undersea craft. In part DR..
Banks letter says: 1T was an un-
eventful trip until August 10, when
at 2.30 p. m, we saw a German sub
marine come to the surface about
three miles ahead of us. She fired a
blank, which means for US to hurry
up n get out. We were at this
time seventy miles off Queenstown.
We sent out an S. o. S. as SOC as the
submarine ordered US out. Just be-
fore getting a lifeboat ready a shell
tore away our wireless. At his mo-
ment l saw, about our miles away, a
steamer coming straight for us. |