Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-09
Scraps and fatts.


report, announced last Wednesday. In
addition. linters amounted to 19l,464
bales. Texas. produced more than one
fourth the crop, Georgia one-siXth, p
7lS.O37 bales. Those states with Ala
bama- South Carolina, Oklahoma and
Mississippi produced more than four
fifths of the entire crop. South caro-
lina's total was 1,533,S10, Mississippi
1,245,535. Ellis county, Texas, was the
banner cotton county, with l43,Il4
bales.
Passage Of a law to compel edi-
tors to show their financial interest
in policies they advocate was recon-
mended by w. ]. Bryan last Tuesday In
an address before the international
Press congress at the Panama-Paclnc
exposition. Mr.. Bryan put peace ana
play aside and appeared as journal
ist He further advised signed stories
and editorials in newspapers. He
commended the influence Of the lone
man edited weekly" as being greater
than that Of a corporation owned
daily newspaper and expressed dis
approval of independent publica-
tions." Experience in the state de-
.partment, Mr.. Bryan said, had con-
yinced him that public welfare would
be benefited by a law compelling ed
itors to tell what pecuniary interest
thew had in governmental policies
thew advocated so the public might
know what weight their editorials
deserved.
The big guns known as Busy
Berthas,' the conception of a Balti-
morean and which were first made In
Germany, are now being used by the
British in the western theatre of war;
says a Baltimore dispatch. When the
blue prints showing the design OF the
huge gun were filed in the patent OF
flee in Washington, 1t is said they
were stolen by a German spy en-
ployed in the office. He resigned his
position and hastened to the Krupp
works in Germany, where the guns
were manufactured before the Euro
pean war began. The Dawson Chemical
company Of Baltimore, is reported to
have filed the patent. When Colonei
Wilbur Miller, president OF the COM
pany, read Of the havoc wrought by
the BUSY Berthas" his suspicious
were aroused. At the patent office he
learned the blue prints had been alb
stracted. Duplicate prints were pre-
pared and he went to England, hand
ing the duplicates over to the British
military authorities.
Frank Holt, the Cornell university
professor who tried to kill ]. P. Nor
gan at his home in Glyn Cove, n. Y,
last Saturday morning, and who was
arrested and committed to Jail at
Mineola, n. Y, managed to Kill him
self last Tuesday night, 1t is thought
by climbing to the top of his cell and
jumping on his head. During Tues
day morning Holt managed to open
l.. he
lead pencil; but the injury was dis
covered before the loss of blood had
amounted to anything serious, and ev-
cry effort was made after that to pre-
vent further attempts. The man was
deprived of every possible means or
suicide, it was thought, and an Off
Ger was put on guard at his cell.
During the night there was heard a
loud noise which many thought was
an explosion, and when the guard,
who claims to have been standing fif-
teen feet away, rushed in, Holt was
lying on the floor dead, but bleeding
profusely from the head. 1t was ru-
mored that Holt committed suicide
by chewing g. percussion cap; but this
is denied. The jail physician claims
that death was due entirely to fracture
Of the skull and concussion of the
brain.
Further complications in the ef-
forts Of American textile manufac-
turers to induce Germany to permit
shipments Of coal tar dyes to the
United States were reported to the
department Of commerce at Washing
ton Wednesday, by Commercial At
tache Thompson, assigned to Berlin,
but now at The Hague. Barring of
American cotton from Germany by the
British order-in-council was the pri-
mary obstacle in the way Of gaining
German assent to shipments and now
to that has been added reports of the
exporting Of American dyestuffs to
Great Britain. Until the ban is re-
leased from cotton, officials are con-
vinced Germany will not permit ex-
porting Of coal tar products loaded by
American manufacturers. Department
Of commerce officials who began an
investigation after receipt of the latest
advices from Mr.. Thompson, determin-
ed that coal tar products were not in
volved in the reported shipments to
Great Britain because they consisted
only Of vegetable dyes manufactured
in the United States. Germany will
be informed of this in continued efforts
to obtain the coal tar products. Com
merce department officials have been
active since the outbreak Of war in
Europe in attempting to solve prob
lens arising from shortage Of coal
tar dyes. A committee of experts of
the department is comforting with the
Federal trade commission to arrange
to assure the stability Of the growing
domestic dye industry when on the
restoration Of peace, American man.
ufacturers have to face German COM
petition.
Frank Holt, the man who attempt
ed to blow up the senate reception
room at the capitol at Washington,
who then tried to kill j. P. Morgan,
and who afterward committed suicide,
has been identified as Erich Muenter,
the Harvard instructor who is believ-
ed to have murdered his wife in April,
1906. Mrs. Muenter had given birth
to a child and was not recovering as
rapidly as was naturally expected; but
told the physician that she relied upon
mind healing. The physician gave up
the case. On the night of April Is,
Muenter told the nurse to get some
sleep while he watched at the bed
side. Next morning Mrs. Muenter was
dead. AS the result of an autopsy
evidences Of poison were discovered,
and Muenter was placed under arrest.
body of his wife to Chicago for inter-
ment, and failed to return. He dis
appeared entirely. During Wednes-
day the body of Holt was positively
identified as that of Muenter, the iden-
tification being made by S. P. Smith,
state detective of the district attor-
ney's office of MiddleseX county, Mass,
Theodore HITLER, an automobile man
of Cambridge, who had lived with
Muenter and who took him to the
train when he ran away, and by A. 7.
Brown, Boston newspaper man who
knew Muenter personally. The de-
tective had Muenter's Bertillion meas
uIements and they Tailed exactly with
the measurements of Holt. Holt or
Muenter has a wife living in Texas,
and she appears to have stuck by him
loyalty after his arrest, promising to
come when sent for.
With their eyes on Trieste the
Italians the past few days have been
engaged in a series of desperate ac-
tions along the IsonZo front. OF these,
little has been recorded in the official
communications, but correspondents
say the plateau Of DOberdo, which is
of great strategic value with respect
to an advance on Trieste has been the