Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-07
Scraps and 9aets.


here shortly before midnight tonight
by a party Of masked men estimated
to number 200 and was riddled with
bullets within a few yards OF the
railway station. The negro had peeh
accused of frightening girls and wo-
men for some time, his offensaes culml-
mating Yesterday when he appeared
half clad before an automobile nlieo
with school girls. He was arrested TINS
afternoon and placed in jail. 'Ioniene
when IL was rumored there was Lalk oI
lynching the officers decided 10 take
the negro to Arkadelphia for safe Keep
ing. They had just boarded the braIn
when they were overpoWered py INC
mob.
Soldiers bonus legislation now TN
der consideration by the house ways
and means committee will carry a pro
vision for raising the necessary reve-
nue. to finance 1t. Chairman foruneS
announced Friday after a conte[ence hite
with President Harding at the White
House. Whether the money will be
obtained by internal taxes or the use
of the proceeds from the refunded tor-
eien debt, or both, remains to be de-
termined, Mr.. Fordney said, Argu-
ments for and against the tax on peer
as a means of raising funds 1or the
bonus were heard by the commlt.ee
and at their conclusion members IN
Iiicated very clearly that such TAX
Juas not to be considered Repre-
sentative Green, of Iowa, the ranking
Republican, declared that ASIDE iroi,i
the constitutional question lnVolVeu'
the arguments against legallzlng .he
sale of beer was so compelling tnat tie
proposition could not be entertalne,u.
Representative Garner OF IeHas, tne
ranking Democrat, said it was waste
of time to talk about raising the ques-
tion when two-thirds of both the house
and senate were opposed to the Deer
and light wine proposition.
Having failed to rout out boot
leegers hidden in the canyons Oh
Freestone county, says dispalcn ol
SATURDAY. from league, Texas, 6rlsa-
dier General Jacob Wolters TO-DAY OF
dered an attack on their forces by ar
plane. Lieut.. Y. H. Taylor, flying low
over a ravine near Fairfield, found the
Sacrat rendezvous of the bootleggers
and opened fire with a machine gun:
The bootleggers returned the hre ana
a nitched bait ensued. Lieut.. Taylor
ESCAPED uninjured, and flew back 10
Headquarters of the National Guaro lor
reinforcements. He led Capt. rom
Hickman, veteran of the Mexican poi
der warfare, with twenty-five RANGERS
back to the site Of the air battle; Inc
rangers invaded the dense Irlnlty
river bottoms and captured htty noo.o
leggers and seven stills, according 10
renorts brought in from the war
zone" Gov. Neff declared martial Ia"
throughout the county, and reinforce
ments are being ordered in to move
against the hundreds of boot!eggers
believed TO be infesting the densely-
underbrushed river bottoms ana al
most inaccessible ravines. Hundreds
of shots were fired during the engage
rnent that followed Tay or's air Scout
ing eXpedition, but the number Oh
casualties is not known. There were
no losses by the rangers.
Another miserable mess among the
moving picture people out in Los An
g-eIes, California. William ID. Taylor,
director r-in-chief of the Players LasKey
corporation was found dead IN ms
home last Thursday morning, from
bullet in his heart that had entered the
back of his pecK1 HetRas sitting hy sals
desk on which there was cance!eu
check. There are number OF theorles
as to the motive of the murder. II is
known that he has been quite 1rlenaiy
with several movie actresses, lnciuains
Mabel Normand, Mary Miles Minter
and Edna Purriance. There was
theory that the murder had possibly
heen committed by butler who had
heen discharged some time ago lot
forgery and theft. There is another
theory that, the man was killed either
by or on account of one of his women
friends, and that the motive was
jealousy or revenge, or both. Iayior
stood high in the movie picture worlo.
Since his death it has turned out that
he has a daughter in New York state,
and that his divorced wife has remar-
ried. His real name was William
Cunningham Deane Tanner. From IN
yestigation of his safety deposit poA
and bank account he appears 10 nave
left an estate valued at about soo,OVV.
The police are still investigating the
murder to the best of their ability.
Providence, r. l., February o: An
nouncement was made today by Ma
tional Organizer James A. DICK OF the
Amalgamated Textile Workers OF
America, who is conducting the strike
of more than $500 cotton mil WORK
ers in the Pawtucket valley, that q
series of conferences have been ar
ranged for tomorrow between repre-
santatives of the strikers and the mill
operators to attempt to arrive at a
settlement The textile workers went
ON a strike after a wage reducton OIL
90 per cent. Labor organizations poth
in the Pawtucket valley and IN the
blackstone valley, the two chief TEX
tile centers in the state, gave over the
dav TO n series of organization meet
ings, Thomas +. Mcmahon, president
of the United Textile Workers OF
America, the labor organization active
i'm the Blackstone valley, addressed
meeting of union delegates in Paw
tucket this afternoon. While no new
walkouts were announced, plans were
discussed for asking the aid OF other
branches of organized labor IN the
fight against the wage reduction. IL
was reported today by President NC
Mahon that outside the Pawtucket
valley between 5000 and 5000 textile
workers are out of work in Rhode Is
land, 5000 of which are members OF
labor organizations.
THE prediction that the Demo-
cratic party would make gains IN
every state in the North, East and
West ard would retrieve in the com
ing campaign the ground lost In Ten
nessee and Texas in the last elec-
ton was made Sunday by Represen-
tatiye Arthur B. Rouse of Kentucky.
chairman OF the Democratic natlonai
congressional committee. In a Tor
NAL statement Mr.. Rouse announced
that the congressional committee re-
al n