Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-04
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the town by driving out dlsorueIIy
women. bootleggers and gamblers. he
made the try and gained considerable
Roadway. But the city council oia
not stand behind him as he thougnI
thought to and last week he rendered
his resignation to take erect juiy 1.
As soon as the news got out Il pusl-
,ssss people held a mass meet ng and
requested him to reconsider. Flnaliy
M said that he would continue In OIL
fice If the council wanted him to. The
oouncil, however called attention 10
tAe fact that the time limit had eX-
tyired and it was powerless. Where-
mon Mayor Oles put his fountain pen
III his pocket, lighted a cigar apd
TALKED out stating that he was EN-
tifely happy.
Lightning struck the roof of one
a. the several big grain elevators at
tffe Baltimore and Ohio railroads
terminals at Locust Point, Baltimore
Sunday night, and in a few minutes
the Immense structure was in names.
Although deluged by rain in the ter
fific storm prevailing the names
spread rapidly. Nearly the entire city
fire department, including fire boats,
was quick at work, but the hre
spread rapidly, soon enveloping eleVa-
TORS b and C, at pier five, all OF which
were wrecked. The elevators con-
tained over 100000 bushels or graln'
which with sixty carloads or export
tobacco -on the pier was destroyed.
The railroad, compary's loss is esti-
mated at between $3,2OO,OOO and S4'-
O00, 900. Several firemen were IN
jured or overcome by heat and smoke.
The American Sugar Refining COM
IA, other
property on the south water front
were untouched. A number OF freight
cars were burned. Several vessels
were scorched before they could be
towed out into the harbor.
= "Just a simple kidnapping by rather
amateurish bandits" is the explanation
of A. Bruce Bielaski, American oil man,
on his return to Mexico City after be-
ing held captive near Cueranvaca for
$1,000 pesos ransom. He eXonerated all
outside influences from completely in
the affair, including the driver OF the
automobile in which he started out on
the sightseeing expedition that eded
in the kidnapping. The driver is stlfl
bSihEsheld at Cueranvaca. Bielaski, VINO
said he had at first withheld his story
by official request, finally gave his eX-
pf{natfon. He stated that he considers
the matter simply kidnapping by rath-
er amateurish bandits from whom he
could easily have escaped by using
violence, a method which nc desired TO
avoid. Bielaski appeared to have re-
covered from his exposure and said ne
did net suffer any more than the mem
bers of the bandit gang that captured
him. All facts. he said, have been COM
,municated to the Mexican authorities
RECON government is taking steps TO
capture and punish the outlaws.
With his mother sitting beside
him, pleading with him to tell the
truth, says a Berlin dispatch Of Fri
day, Werner Teschow broke down and
cdilfessed to the police that he drove
the death car from which DIR. Walter
Rathenau was assassinated a week
ago. Teschow's mother is proud
old school pan German, but she told
him.. as they sat with Police Chief
Richter, that despite her views about
thes GsffnSAA Republic, she could not
approve of any one taking affairs into
his own hands as the slayers of
Rathenau had done. She begged him
to confess whether he had any part
in the murder. TeSchow, who had
previously maintained an unshaken
attitude in accordance with his pledge
not to reveal the identity of his asso-
ciates, broke down at his mothers
words and admitted, the police de-
clared, that he drove the assassins'
automobile on the day of the murder
and that he had frequent meetings
with the alleged accomplices before
the crime was committed. He named
Kauer and Discher in this connection.
Governor Hardwick of Georgia, de-
clared late Friday that he favored a
law forbidding the wearing of masks
in public, that the state does not need
masked men and that there will be no
invisible government in its bounda-
ries as long as he is chief executive"
The statement was made during brief
addfess before the conference in At
laata of the newly organized Georgia
League for Enforcement of Law
Through Constituted Authority, and
Governor Hardwick devoted much of
his time to a discussion of the Ku KluX
Klan. He had been invited to join the
organization, he said, and had read its
literature, but had declined the invita-
ton. Officers of the klan, the governor
said, had told him that mob outrages
laid at the door of the klan had not
been perpetrated by il. 1T is unfortu-
note, However, that groups OF men in
such affairs use the same regalia as
the klan," the governor added, and told
the members Of the league that he
would send any necessary aid to sher-
ifs and judges of Georgia counties
who asked help in breaking up various
mob outrages by bands Of masked men,
declaring martial law if necessary.
[ Fighting between the forces Of the
Irish Free State and the Republicans
threatens to bring British intervention.
The British government does not de-
sire to intervene. Ii nOp2S tia. the
Free State will be able 70 overcome The
Republicans without the help of British
troops. The Republicans desire to
force British intervention. 1t is like
this: The De Valera or Republican
party, was and is absolutely opposed
to any arrangement that would recog-
niZe the British empire as having any
thing to do with Ireland. They claim
that Ireland is and of right ought to be
absolutely free and independent of the
British empire. That is the idea on
which the, Republicans refuse TO rec
ognize the Free State provisional gov
ernment under Michael Collins. In this
spirit Rory O'Connell last week, with
about ahundred Republican army men,
took up n position in the Four Courts
public building. The Free State troops
laid siege and began an assault, first
wit n small arms and lgtpr with ortil-