Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-04
Scraps and 9aets.

"A check for $65,000,000, believed
to be the largest ever drawn In the
United States, was deposited to the
credit of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company in a New York bank last
Wednesday morning. 1t was drawn
by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in payment OF
general mortgage bonds issued by the
company and sold on public subscrip-
ton, after being underwritten by
syndicate formed by the bankers. The
check was deposited in the bank on
which il was drawn.
Former Governor Blease addressed
a gathering of Anderson county peo-
pie in the square in the city OF Ander-
son last Saturday. He attacked Gov
ernor Manning's administration, par
ticularly for that $4,000 appropriation
for legal advice" and as to contract
ing to pay the superintendent of the
asylum $4,000 a year, when the legls-
lature had provided for less. He also
made a counter attack On the Ander- :
son Intelligencer which had printed
belittling remarks previous to MS
arrival The Anderson Mail Of Satur-
day afternoon, had a paragraph stat
ing that the former governor was IN
town and would speak during the al
ternoon. The Intelligencer Of Sun
day morning contained no report OF
the speech. The Farmers Tribune
Of Sunday printed summary or the
former governors remarks.
Members Of the Evangelical Luth-
eran synod Of New York and New Eng
land, though heart and soul with Ger
many in the European war are, in the
language Of the synod's president, the
Rev. VIM. NJ. Horn, American before
we are German sympathiZers, and II
unhappily this nation should be drawn
into the cataclysm, We would stand for
our country even against the land or
which we so affectionately shink as the
fatherland" Mr.. Horn, in delivering
his annual address, Of which the fore
going is part, to the annual meeting or
the synod in New York, Wednesday,
urged the attendant delegates to alb
stain from anything which might en-
barrass President Wilson "even to the
extent Of keeping silent that sympathy
which we entertain for Germany
against her present enemies.
The suggestion has been made In
the Evening Standard by Fred T:
Jane, the naval author, says naval
dispatch, that the steamer Princess
Irene was blown up by a German
wireless device. The Princess Irene,
an auxiliary in the British navy, was
blown up last week in Sheerness har-
Dor, with loss Of more than 900
lives. "The sudden and complete
destruction Of the Princess Irene In
the Medway," Mr.. Jane writes, at no
great distance from where the bat
tleship Bulwark also was suddenly
blown up, may be curious coinci-
dence. Italian experiments have prov
ed it possible to explode the properly
attuned charge by wireless from
short distance. If that charge be sur
repitiously placed in a magazine, ev-
erything in the magazine will go the
same way. One spontaneous explosion
is thinkable enough, but two in the
same district demand too much from
the imagination"
Columbia, June q: There has
been a general change in the officials
of the Columbia and Spartanburg
division Of the Southern railway, with
headquarters in Columbia. THESE
changes are effective Tuesday: Will
liam Maxwell, for many years train
master Of the Columbia division, has
been promoted to the superintendency
of the Spartanburg division to sue
ceed J. w. Wassem, who has been
transferred. ]. w. Wassem, for sew
eral years superintendent Of the Spar.
tanburg division, has been transferred
to the Columbia division, to succeed
j. ". Payton, who resigned. j. r.
Vaughn, who was trainmaster Of the
Charleston division, has been trans
ferred to the Columbia division to
succeed William Maxwell as train
master Thomas P. Beard, chief dis
patcher Of the Spartanburg division
since it's formation has been promoted
to trainmaster Of the Charleston di-
vision to succeed j. r. Vaughn. j..
NJ. Parker, dispatcher Of the Spartan
burg division, is promoted to succeed
Mr.. Beard as chief dispatcher OF
that division. The yards OF the Co
lumbia terminal have been transferred
from the supervision of the Spartan
burg division to that of the Columbia
division. Mr.. Wassem still will be in
charge Of the local yards.
Capt. Oscar Lane Of the American
tank steamer Winifred, which arrived
at Houston, Texas, Wednesday from
Tampico, gave out a statement in
which he reported that three weeks
ago Villa soldiers fired on launch in
which Lieut.. Green of the United
States cruiser Sacramento and the
United States consul at Tampico were
vestigate the killing of two Americans.
At the time, Lane said, an American
flag was flying from the stern of the
launch and a white flag from the
boats bow. One Of the bullets passed
through Green's hat, he said, and
grazed his head. Capt. Lane also re-
ported the killing Of six Americans, in
cluding ]. n. Bennett, an oil man, and
John Smith, chief engineer for the
East Coast Oil company. He described
conditions in the oil fields near Tam
pico as serious and asserted that there
was a great feeling Of hostility to
Americans. Bennett was killed while
en- route from the oil fields Of Tampico
to meet his wife who was en- route
from Galveston, according to Lanes
statement. He was with small band
of Carranza's soldiers at the time.
They were overtaken by detachment
of Villa troops and in the exchange or
shots the American was killed. Smith,
Lane said, was ambushed.
The monument to General Thomas
]. (StonewalD Jackson, the corner
stone of which will be laid here today,
will cost approximately $4,000, all
of whi h now is in hand, the gift OF
the people of the south, says a Rich
mond dispatch of Wednesday. or
this sum the legislature of Virginia
contributed $4,000, the city Of Rich
mond gave $4,000. while the remain
der was given by school children and
patriotic societies, with scattered con-
tributions from all southern states
No design has yet been selected for
the monument, excepting that it shall
be an equestrian statue, but it is eX'
pected that the design will be chosen
in the near future. The statue will
stand in the western part of Rich
mond, not far from the statues of
jefferson Davis, General Robert E.
Lee mad General ]. E. B. Stuart The
movement which resulted in obtain
ing the funds for this statue had its
inception, ii is stated, few years
ago in a march which the Richmond
Howitzers made over the battletields
in the Valley of Virginia, made fa-
NOUS by "Stonewall" Jackson and his
foot cavalry" At banquet given
to the Howitzers in Alexandria at
the end of their march, a proposition
was made that an organization be ef-
fected to accomplish the erection of
n Jackson monument. In November,
1911, the Thomas j. (StonewalD
Jackson Monument corporation was
formed and later the collection of
funds began. The people Of the