Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-13
Scraps and faets.

who is charged with the killing did not
do it. Sid, she says, accompanied by
herself, Ed Chambers and his wire,
were going up the steps of the Weich
courthouse to answer charges that hau
been made against Sid in connection
withla a previous shooting affair in the
Mohawk valley Sid, she said, had not
had anything TO do with the shooting.
Ed Chambers was going along as d
witness for Sid. Neither of the men
were armed. c. E. Lively claimed
that Sid made a motion to draw pis-
tol and Lively shot him.. That is not
true. Lively did not even shoot. A
crowd of men on the courthouse steps
shotsSi and there were thirteen bull
let's in his body. He never knew what
happsred. Mrs. Hatfield says she Will
not 20 to Welch to testify in the mat
ter sunless under the protection Oh
United States troops, because other-
wise. she would be killed before she
could say a word. She is not afraid IN
Matewan, first because she has good
revolver and knows how TO use 1t, ana
second because she has friends there,
The city of San Antonio, Texas,
was overwhelmed last Friday night by
the flood waters of San Antonio river,
Aloyan creek and tributary streams
and up to Saturday evening more thah
forty dead had been recovered IL was
estimated that the dead would number
$50 or more. There had been heavy
rains, including cloudburst, in the
hills above the city since Friday after
noon at 3 o'clock, and although the
waters were rising higher and higher,
there was no reason to anticipate the
terrible flood that came down upon the
doomed city. The avalanche f waters
swept away great houses as IL they hau
been paper boxes, and although splen-
did heroism was shown by the people
in trying to save lives, many were iost
without aid. Late reports indicate that
bodies are still being recovered from
masses of debris that had collected
against trees and other distractions,
and that many other bodies went on
down with the flood never to be heard
of again. The property loss runs up
into millions of dollars. The people OF
San Antonio and of other Texas towns
are doing what they can in the way OF
relief work The rainfall is reported to
have aggregated 1851 inches during "a
hours.
Negotiations were completed in
Paris Saturday, according to an AS
sociated Press correspondent, whereby
the vast estates of Archduke freder-
ick of Austria and his son, Archduke
Albrecht, estimated to be worth more
than S200,000,000, were taken over by
an American syndicate which includes
Charles II. Sabin. j. Leonard Replogle,
Frank Munsey, Thomas j. Fielder and
other prominent American business
men. The transaction concerns the
vast land and industrial holdings oil
the Hapsburgs, distributed through
ont Austria, CZecho- Slovakia, Poland.
Rumania and Italy. They include the
great steel works and mines in
Teschen, which are partly in CZecho-
Slovakia and partly in Poland. the
estate comprises numerous other IN
dustries, including the dairies which
formerly furnished most of the Vienna
supply Of milk and butter sugar PLAN
tations factories, apartment houses,
palaces and other private property In
Vienna. castles in various parts ot the
continent, about 100000 acres of ag-
ricultural and forest lands scattered
over several countries, and the re-
marI4blc Alhertina ppscum IN Vienna
which is said to contain nearly, lOVQ,-
900 works of art.
- Harry w Church, 20-year old
youth is held by the Chicago police,
charged with the mnrder of Is. j.
DauEherty and Carl Ausmus in order
to get possession of a $500 automo-
bile. Church went to the automoDllG
concern last Friday and bargained
for the sale of the fine car. BY agree
ment Daugherty and Ausmus went
home with Church in the car to get a
check from Church's father, Daugherty
went in the house with Church, leaN-
ing Ausmus in the car outside. Church
pulled a pistol on Daugherty, put
handouts on him. took him to the
cellar and killed him with a baSeball
bat. After a while Ausmus came IN
and was treated the same way. The
body of Daugherty was thrown into
the Des Planes river and the body OF
Ausmus was buried in the cellar.
Church left in the car and went to
Adams. Wisconsin. Later on, the
body of Daugherty was found in the
river, and investigation disclosed the
buried body of Ausmus. Both bodies
had been stabbed and otherwise mutt
lated. Church was brought back from
Wisconsin and made a confession sub
stantially as above. The police how
ever think that he did not commit the
crime alone: but that he had assist
anCe.
Washington. September II: In
reorganization of population charac-
terlStlCS, tnc census bureau lldS lilh'-
ed figures, which in respect to Hitter
aCy.. give South Carolina fine adNan-
tage over it's sister state, North Caro-
lima. Illiteratcs in the two states are OF
practically identical number approx
imately a quarter of a million. But in
North Carolina there are 100000 white
iIlitcratcs. In South Carolina white
illiterates number 32.S13. In South
Carolina there are 220,667 people ~
wears of age and over who can not
write. The percentage in respect to
population is 1S1. Ten years ago 1t
was 25.7. OF the illiterates. 1S1,422 are
negroes. 293 per cent of the popuia-
tion: 1O3 are of mixed parentage, g.
329 of foreign born parcntage. Native
born white illiterates number only 81
S13. Urban illiterateS number 24.15I
CT 1913 per cent; rural, 196,51O or ~
per cent IllitelaCy in the several
counties ranges from II per cent. III
Greenville. to 3S in Berkeley. In Rich
land county. there are 1852 illiterateS,
12.5 per cent. Of the population as
against 1873 per cent in 1910. or the
ilIiteratos, the majority, 1890 are
white, the percentage being 3. Negro
initarates number 1,160 or % per cent
Twelve illitcrates in Richland county
are of foreign white parentage.
- Chester, Pa, September 10: flar~
vcy W. Church, the 20 year old youth