Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-17
Scraps and faets.

cattle, delivered at Liverpool. The or
der, If filled, said Robertson, would re-
quire a payment Of about $lOO,OOO,OO O'
and would make vast inroads on the
available cattle in the United States.
- Columbia August 13: b. A. Morgan
and Sam J.. Nichols, having received
the two largest numbers OF votes In
the Democratic primary in the Fourth
congressional district last tuesday,
were selected today by a quorum OF
the state Democratic executive com
mittee for entrance to the second pri-
mary, which will be held Tuesday,
August "a. A special committee OF
nine will meet Friday following the
primary to name the Democratic
nominee. The official vote follows:
Blackwood, 1882; CAN'T, ISL; John
son, l,S17; Morgan, 1922; Nichols,
5,O52. The committee adopted resolu-
tons on the death, February 3, 1915.
of Rufus Franklin Smith, who was a
member of the state Democratic COM
mittee from Pickens county. w. r.
Stevenson, of Chesterfield, vice chair
man, presided at the meeting in the
absence Of John Gary Evans, chair
man..
After a three months visit to the
hospitals in the European war zone, as
wetll as those in London and Edinburg'
DIR. S. A. Cunningham returned to
Marietta, o., Friday with interesting
information which has not been allow
ed TO leak through strict English and
French censorship. Probably The
most important news brought yer by
DR.. Cunningham was that the English
have devised a method that has result
ed in the capture of AZ German subma-
rines, and caused the undersea boats
to give the English channel a wide
berth. DR.. Cunningham's information
came from q member of h admiralty,
who stated that the captures were
made with the aid of enormous steel
nets, which are fastened to Inc hulls
of two TRAVELLING vessels, which are
then separated for a distance OF sew
eral hundred yards and start a drag
through the channel. Some Of the
submarines have been hauled in as
fish are seined, and others have been
capsiZed by the nets and f~oundered.
j. Pierpont Morgan, fully recovered
from wounds inflicted by the would
be assassin, Frank Holt, last month,
returned to his desk in the financial
district of Manhattan yesterday. He is
as carefully guarded as any European
monarch. The steam yacht Corsair,
from a cruise on which with the New
York Yacht club, Mr.. Morgan returned,
will carry him every morning from
his estate at Glen Cove. The landing
place was kept a secret. A limousine
met the yacht. Detectives in various
DISCUSSES were on duty at the pier.
After Mr.. Morgan was seated in the
car the curtain was drawn, so its oc-
cupant could not be seen from the
street. The detectives in another car
accompanied the Morgan automobile to
Wall and Broad streets. No unidenti-
fed craft was allowed to enter the
private boat basin in East Island
where MIR. Morgan embarked. The
land entrance to the island is blocked
by heavy gates Inc chains. None Of
the servants on the estate may leave
or return to the island without giving
detectives, stationed at every possible
point of departure n approach, a
countersign. Hereafter, it was said,
Mr.. Morgan will spend most Of his
leisure time on the island. Carpenters
have been busy building houses for the
detectives.
Increased manufacture Of cotton in
the south, the heavy s Of linters and
almost normal cotton exports, which 1t
was thought would be greatly reduced
this year by the war, were the features
Of the yearly cotton consumption and
distribution report issued from Wash
ington last Friday by h census bu-
reau. Cotton consumed during July
was 49S, AIS bales Of lint and 1864 Of
linters, against 44S,333 and 23,4S6 in
July last year. Cotton on hand July
81, in consuming establishments was
1,401, 4S4 bales Of lint, and 1888 OF
linters, against COS, 1852 and S4,21S las
year, and in public storage and at
congresses, LISA. S12 bales Of lint and
SO, 401 Of linters, against 425, 102 and
1856 last year. Exports during July
were 245,522 bales Of lint and 14,364
of linters, against 1921 and S,644
last year, and for the II months, s.
543,573 bales of lint and 219,111 Of
~linters, against 9,150,S01 and 259,SS1
the previous year. Imports We're 3d.
667 bales against 49, 100 in July last
year, ami for the II months 1882, 2S7
bales against go, 9SS the previous year.
Foreign cotton consumed in July was
q, Gal bales on hand July 81, in con-
Stunning establishments, 10S,S72 bales,
and in public storage 35,9S7 bales. Eff
forts are being made by the census bu-
a to determine how much cotton is
being used in the manufacture Of eX-
plosives. Director Rogers, in a formal
statement last Friday, explained that
numerous requests have been received
for estimates. The bureau finds it diff
cult to get a information, as much
of the cotton used in explosives is first
purified by establishments not connect
ed with the explosive plants.
Representative bankers from eight
cotton growing states at Galveston,
Texas, last Saturday, pledged them
selves to stand solidly behind the pro-
ducers in an effort to secure a fair and
uniform price for cotton, and in this
they were pledged the support Of the
four southern Federal reserve banks.
The meeting of the bankers resulted
in the perpetuation of the cotton states
bankers conference, the next meeting
Of which will be called for sometime
in November or December. The means
by which ii is proposed to secure to
the producers a fair price for their
staple is h gradual marketing Of cot
ton. The bankers have agreed to ad-
vance money TO the farmers on cotton
securities and the Federal reserve
bank representatives agreed to re-dis-
count this paper. Thus they hope to
offer no more cotton than the market
will instantly absorb. In the meeting,
presidents of five state bankers asSo-
Citations, representatives of three Fed
eral reserve banks n numerous prom
inent clearing house representatives
took part. There were ~ bankers
present. That the Federal reserve
directors are in sympathy with the
movement was indicated by a tele-
gram from w. G. P. Harding, chairman
of the Federal reserve board, who eX-
pressed a willingness to meet with a
committee of southern bankers in Bir-
mingham on August &c. A committee
was appointed to confer with Mr..
Harding on the general subject of cot
ton marketing. The committee is
composed Of one representative from
every state. Most Of them are the
presidents of their respective state
bankers associations. The formation
Of an association of southern bankers
had been n of the plans Of the lead
ers in calling last Fridays meeting,
but after the delegates arrived it was
decided to abandon this plan.
The present position at hill so, near
Dunkirk which the British military
authorities recently admitted had
lapsed back into German possession,
is peculiar and of great interest. The
hill is really nothing but a knoll of