Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-11-16
Scraps aud faets.

The bill already has passed in the
senate. The only change in the bill
/ ade by the house was that the pro-
posed law would become effective May
l. 1916. instead of January next, as
provided by the senate. The bill de-
fines liquor as ANY drink containing
more than 1-2 Of per cent of alcohol
1t is generally understood that GOV.
Harris will approve the measure. The
vote in the house was l42 to ~. Ad-
vocates of the bill declare 1t will elm
mate all breweries, so-called near
beer saloons and locker clubs
There is a lot of doubt and con-
fusion surrounding the circumstances
of the recent sinking of the Italian
steamer Ancona. The Italians are try
ing to make it appear that the steam
er was sunk without warning and by
q German submarine. Austria ac-
knowledges the sinking Of the Ancona.
but claims that II was not until after
it had been warned and had tried to
escape. The statement is that the
captain Of the Ancona was allowed
three-Quarters of an hour in which 10
get his passengers and crew on. 1t Is
stated also that the ship was nearly an
hour in sinking after she had been
torpedoed. The Italians are evidently
one that the United States should be
bound to take cognizance of. The
Washington government, however, mas
heard nothing direct either from the
American minister at Rome or Vienna.
Cotton used during October was
5OO,635 bales, compared with 451,Ss9
bales in October last year, the census
bureau on Saturday announced. Cot
ton on hand October 81. in consuming
establishments was 1,S45,749 bales,
compared with 1883 year ago, ana
in public storage and at congresses,
4,171,474, compared with 3,777,469 a
year ago. Lnters consumed during
October, and not included in above
figures. 6s,944 bales, against 80; loz
year ago. Linters on hand October 81
in consuming establishments 130.031
bales, compared with 65,174 year
ago, and in public storage and at
warehouses T1,372 bales, against Al
753 a year ago. Exports were 674,655
bales against 497,1 in october year
ago. Imports were 1886 bales
against 1880 year ago. Spindles
active during October were 31,379,3S5
against S0,461,320 year ago.
The Georgia legislature has agreed
upon a really drastic prohibition law
to go into effect on May l Iext. I'm
der this law no more whisky, wine or
malt liquors are 10 he manufactured
or sold in Georgia except in small
monthly allowances from outside the
state for personal use All locker
clubs are outlawed, and drinks can
not be sold or dispensed at clubs, So
cial or otherwise. No one can offer
drink to friend or boon com panion eX-
cept at home and only then to bona
fide guest. No newspaper will be al
lowed to advertise liquors for sale and
the railroads and other public car
riers will be prohibited from bring
ing LIQUOR into the state except un-
der strict compliance with allowance
regulations. Heavy penalties are laid
on sheriffs and other officers for fall
ure to enforce the law. The liquor
men of the state fought the law to
the last; but now say they want to see
it strictly enforced because they be-
lieve that is the most certain way Of
securing its repeal.
inspired by the success Of the mill
tary encampment at Plattsburg last
summer where hundreds Of business
and professional men received training
for one month from United States
announced last Saturday that the
government would conduct another
along exactly similar lines at Cam
den, s. c. This encampment." Gen.
Wood said, will begin probably early
in February 1t will be for the same
purpose and run along the same lines
as the one held at Plattsburg. Camden
was selected because the encampment
was wanted in the south and we had
to select some place which was not
too far away from one Of our army
fn - fr0nnS there
conveniently, The men who attend
the encampment will receive training
in military calisthenics, rifle practice,
offensive and defensive field work,
camp sanitation, trench digging, sig
mailing and marching and in the gen.
eral duties Of a soldier" Gen. Wood
said that already many applications to
attend the camp had been received.
Published charges, attributed to
DR.. Joseph Goricar, former Austro-
Hungarian consul at San Francisco,
that Austrian consuls in the United
States, working under the direction
of Consul-General Won Nuber and
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, are active in propaganda
for destruction of munitions factories
and fomenting strikes among the
workers will be referred by the state
justice for investigation, says Wash
ing:on dispatch. The Austrian en-
bassy here denounced Goricar's pub
lished statement as untrue and an
nounced it would try to find some way
to prosecute him. Goricar, the en-
bassy said, left his post on leave and
failed to return. Secretary Lansing
today declined to comment on the
charges. Goricar Is credited with
making the statement that he resign
ed after fifteen years in the Austrian
consul service because he declined
to perform the work of a spy. He
charges that while consul at San
Francisco, Commander Maximilian
Burstyn, the Austrian naval attache
in Washington, ordered him to gath
er plans Of the fortification of San
Francisco harbor and along the
Pacific coast and to get especially de-
tails of the work at Bremerton navy
yard. When he refused, Goricar is
credited with saying he was trans
ferred to Berlin, and after five months
was ordered to Vienna, where he fear
ed to go because of his pro-Slavic af-
filiations, so he fed to Rome, where he
resigned last December. Goricar's story
contends that the German ambassa-
dor, working with Won Nuber, is in
touch with the Austrian consuls at
Cleveland, st. Louis, Pittsburg, st.
Paul, Chicago and Philadelphia, who
spread propaganda among the foreign
workers in the munitions factories,
and such activity, Goricar alleges ex-
tends even to controlling the foreign
ers through fraternal and secret or
CARNATIONS.
Booker T. Washington, the noted
negro educator and founder of Tus-
kegee institute, died at his home in
Tuskegee, Ala, last Sunday, four hours
after his arrival from New York.
Death was due to hardening Of the
arteries following a nervous break
down. The negro leader had been in
failing health for several months, but
his condition became serious only last
week while he was in the east. He
realized the end was near. but was
determined to make the long trip
south to bear out his oft-eXpressed
statement that he had been born in
the south, have lived all my life in the
south and expect to die and be buried
in the south" Accompanied by his
wife. his secretary and a physician.
Washington left New York for Tuske-
gee Friday. He reached his home
Saturday night. Specialists who had
examined Washington said he was