Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-20
Scraps and faets.


Two hold up men robbed the tick
at office of the Piedmont and North
trn railroad in Charlotte OF about $l3O
last Tuesday evening at about 7:3O
o'clock. While the office was deserted
by all except j. II. Wright Mrs.
Wright and Miss Mary Zeman. IN
charge of the office the men appeared
with ugly looking pistols and made
them stand with hands up until the
robbery was completed. Then inc
robbers beat it, and when the ponce
arrived in response to a telephone
alarm no information could be had as
TO their whereabouts.
S-The state of North Carolina is try
ing to secure from Toronto, Ontario,
3he extradition of. Matthew Bullock, a
negro. who is wanted on the charge OF
Hncitinx to riot Canadian lawyers
And negroes are fighting the demand
ioi. extradition on the claim that II
1aken back to North Carolina Bullock
Avill be lynched. Among the prece-
Sdents TINT are being cited is a slavery
1ime case. in which the eXtradition OF
a negro slave was denied on the
Eeround that British law provided that
Eno slave remains one when once on
SBritish soil" Bullock was arrested In
SNIarch, 1921, and the immigration au-
ihorities had already ordered his de-
Aportation when the fight developed.
The negro population of Canada is do
ling all ii can for him.
A mob of approximately 1000 per-
!, soEs overpowered officials at Mayo
Mia, Wednesday, took negro VINO
killed w. X. Taylor Saturday niSht
iand lynched him on the outskirts OF
Mhe town. Taylor, the son of a we'll
Eknown naval stores operator, and MN
self q rural mail carrier, was shot ana
@instantly killed at midnight SATURDAY
when he entered the negro's home to
Investigate a quarrel. The negro used
u shotgun, the cartridge of which was
so arranged, that the discharge enter
ed Taylor's body as one solid piece.
When the officers returned to Mayo
with the negro Wednesday following
fhis capture several miles from town,
they were Intercepted by eDraged. cit
izens who dropped their daily tasks
and quickly formed The officials had
little chance of protecting their pris-
oner. and the work, OF the men bert on
lyrfching was short The negro's body
was riddled with bullets after having
been hanged 10 q tree. Ihe nesTo'
whose name developed to be Charles
Strong, before his death said another
negro also had q hold on the gun
which caused Taylor's death and the
search for him then began.
Henry Ford will address the south
q ern group of the American Farm Dn-
reau federation at its meeting at Mus
Gle Shoals, Alabama, today and toInor-
row, the Farm Bureau federation an
nounccd a few days ago. The south
ern group Of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation comprises the states
of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, MisSiSsippl'
Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, oKla-
homa and Texas. In addition dciegat teS
will he present. the headquarters Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
said, from fifteen other states in the
corn and wheat belt sections of the
Mississippi valley. Organization, nced
Of more efficient community m:tts to
develop initiative and leadership CO.
operative marketing OF the major
southern crops such as cotton and to-
bacco, community marketing or local.
products. and farm finance are on the
program of the meeting. Other sub
jects expected to be considered include
the American Cotton Growers associ-
ation, development of daiCy aud live
stock Industry In the southern states.
i and corn syrup making. The meeting
will be organized in Florence, Ala,
and an extensive examination OF the
. Muscle Shoals project is expected to
be made by the delegates.
- The senate on Tuesday adopted an
amendment to the Federal Reserve
law under which the appOintiVe mem
bership of the government board VIII be
increased from FIVE to six. The spe-
cific provision heretofore requiring the
president to name two bankers on the
board is wiped out, and in its place a
t..;y& O. ,-i,N.r hot
must have ''due regard to 4 fair rep
resentation of the financial, aSricultu-
raj, industrial and commercial inter-
ests and geographical divisions of the
country" The significance Of the
change is the prevailing sentiment
that the Federal Reserve system is too
largely dominated by professional
bankers: that the agricultural inter
ests of the country should have more
direct representation. In the debate
il was brought out that there are those
who think the nations finances are too
largely dominated by h class in the in
tereSt of a class. In other words that
what is known as Wall street has too
much saw II has beer proposed to
require the president to put at least
one farmer on the board: but COM
promise was reached as stated above.
That the change in the law is of I'M
DOIlanI NHStO - nv ~
sonable question:: but gwhat the uiti-
mate effect will be is uncertain. except
the indications are that the people OF
the country, as such. are going to have
more to say about the conduct OF the
courtrys banking policy than they
have been having to say.
- Secretary Hughes. as head OF the
American delegation to the Washing
ton conference, defined at meeting or
the Far Eastern committee on Tues
day the American policy concerning
the open door III China, his statement,
ii was said. being based on note he
sent as secretary OF state to Afford
SEE. the Chinese minister at Washing
ton, on July |, last. Without referring
10 the note or quoting from its Ian
Euage, Secretary Hughes was under
stood to have followed closely the
principles covered hy the following
statement. which was said to be con-
taircd in tho note: "Thc government
of tho United States has never d"SOCi-
atcd itself with any arrangement
which sought to establish any specla!
rights or privileges in China which
would abridGc the rights OF the sub
icctS or. citizens of other friendly
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