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Straps ami .facts. ? L. O. Smart, a five-year-old Greenville county boy, fell three stories down an elevator shaft in Greenville, Tu? sday, and escaped with a broken thigh. ? They voted on bonds ovt r in Chestert.eld county anyway, according to a dispatch, and three boxes out of twenty-four reported on Tuesday, gave 150 voles for and 76 votes against bonds. ? Lewis YV. Parker has resigned as president of the Parker Cotton Mills company, and M. C. Branch, of the banking firm of Thomas Branch & Co., Richmond, has been elected in his stead. ? The Farmers' Union warehouse of Barnwell, was destroyed by fire about 8 o'clock, Tuesday night. The building contained 650 bales of cotton insured for $L',000. The origin of the t.re is not known. ? Thomas J. Boyd, former cashier of the Bank of Spartanburg, has been elected city clerk and treasurer of Spartanburg, to succeed the late J. B. Carlisle. Mr. Boyd was elected on the first ballot over ten other applicants. ? There was much excitement in the little town of Gray Court, Monday, when a letter threatening to burn the town was received there. The letter which was unsigned, was addressed to "Merchants of Gray Court." ? Mrs. S. P. Matthews, wife of one of the wealthiest and most prominent Greenwood county farmers, was burned to death Monday night, when her clothing in some unknown manner became ignited. ? The William J. Burns International Detective agency of New York, proposes to open an office in the Union National bank building of Columbia. Papers of domestication have already been filed with the secretary of state. ? The South Carolina sinking fund commission on Tuesday, made arrangements to borrow $110,848.52, the amount necessary to cover appropriations made by the special session of the legislature. The money was borrowed from the Palmetto National bank of Columbia, until February 1, at 6 per cent. S. T. Carter, state trcnunror a w. Jones, comptroller and Neils Christensen and Geo. W. Dick, of the sinking fund commission, signed the notes. Gov. Blease did not attend the meeting. ? British and French ships participated a few days ago in the bombardment of the forts that protect the mouth of the Dardanelles. The bombardment was kept up for some hours, and the Turkish forts replied vigorously; but were not quite able to reach the attacking ships. Only a few of the shells fell near enough to suggest the possibility of damage. It is stated that a great cloud of black smoke that enveloped one of the forts indicated that it must have been destroyed or badly injured by an explosion caused by the fire from the ships. ? Sheriff Hendrix Rector of Greenville. has been cited to appear before Judge S. W. G. Shipp, in the sessions court at Greenville, Monday, to show why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court by reason of an article which he gave out for publication, and which appeared in a Greenville paper last Sunday. The article referred to the recent presentment of the grand jury in which the sheriff was reprimanded by that body. In the course of his article. Sheriff Rector said that the jury was actuated by personal feeling, and that one man not a member of the jury, played a prominent part in the affair. ? There was an important engagement between German and British - " ? 1 /->Wil.o CunHav neeis ou ^urunci, V/imc, moi. as the result of which the British were defeated. The British ships were the Glasgow, the Monmouth, the Good Hope and the Otranto. The Germans were the Gneisenau, the Scharnhorst, the Xurnbarg, the Leipsic and the Dresden. Admiral Grof was in command of the Germans and Sir Christopher Craddock in command of the British. The fight lasted thirty minutes. during which the Monmouth was sunk and the Glasgow and Good Hope were badly damaged. The Glasgow took refuge in the harbor of Coronel and was bottled up there. The Otranto escaped. There were six wounded on the Gneisenau; but the German admiral claims that none of his ships were seriously damaged. ? The German submarine U-9, which sank the British cruiser Aboukir, Hogue, Cressy and Hawke, is in a disabled condition, fifteen miles off the north coast of Holland, according to a dispatch from Rotterdam. The famous submarine was disabled by her screw getting caught in a trawler net. A Dutch steam trawler which arrived at Pjmiden, reports that, while fishing in the Xorth sea, she was dragged along by an unseen force and nearly capsized. Suddenly the vessel appeared on the surface, caught in the trawler's net. The submarine sent up a rocket and the net lines were cut. The little fighting vessel then disappeared. The submarine thus disabled was the most destructive instrument the Germans have used against the British navy. Single-handed, she torpedoed and sank the four British cruisers, causing a loss of 2,400 British officers and men. ? Mr. E. W. Thompson, formerly of the Charlotte Observer, but recently appointed commercial attache of the American embassy at Berlin, is in \\ ashington, waiting a favorable opportunity to go to his post in Berlin. Mr. H. E. C. Bryant, Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, asked Mr. Thompson on Wednesday, why Great Britain took so much cotton seed and cotton seed oil last month. "Great Britain makes normally about 100,000 tons of artificial butter," said Mr. Thompson. "She puts in that butter either cotton seed or peanut oil. The French supply of peanut oil has been interfered with by the war. Cotton seed oil is taking its place. I look for cotton seed to increase in price as the war goes on. Holland makes 150,00 tons of butter in which she uses 150,000 barrels of cotton seed oil or peanut oil. Denmark is coming to the United States for great quantities of cotton seed oil cake to take the place of the sunilower cake she has been getting from Russia." ?A Paris letter in the Analysist presents the estimate of former Minister Yvts Guyot, the noted French economist, on the costs of the European conl ict and its effect on savings. Mr. Guyot thinks that at the end of six months the number of men engaged will be: Three million Germans, 2.000,000 Austrians, or 5,000,000 in the camp of France's enemies. Three million Frenchmen and 4 000,000 Russians will oppose them, being 7,000,000 in all, without reckoning England and not counting the smaller units in the Balkans. On this basis and at an estimated cost of $2.50 a day per head, every fighting day destroys at least $UO,000,000, and six months' outlay would reach $5,400,000,000. The annual capacity for saving of the various nations involved is placed at $S00,000.000 for France, $1,250,000,000 for Germany and $1,600,000,000 for England, a total of $3,600,000,000, equal to the cost of four months' warfare. But lighting nations do not only cease from saving: they also stop paying their way, and Mr. Guyot places the losses through curtailment of productive power at $8,800,(100,000. The damage done to human machinery he estimates at $3,600,000,000, making a total Joss at capital account of $16,000,000,?00 a year. ? Women now have full suffrage in ten states, according to the returns up to last night, which apparently gave the franchise to women in Nevada and Montana. Suffrage amendments were leading by 1,315 in Montana and by 3.500 in Nevada. In addition, women have the right to vote for certain offices in 23 other states. In Illinois, they may vote for all statutory offices. including presidential electors. The eleven women suffrage states, with the time of granting the franchise. are: Wyoming, lsuo: Colorado. IMC; l tali, 1S90: Idaho, 1896; Washington. 1910; California. 1912: Arizona, 1912: Kansas. 1912: Oregon, 1912; Nevada. 1914: Montana. 1914. The twenty states allowing partial suffrage to women are: Connecticut, Delaware Iowa. Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky. Michigan, Massachusetts. Minnesota. Nebraska, (defeated full sutTrage Tuesday?. New Hampshire New Jersev New Mexico New York North Dakota. Vermont and Wisconsin. J .ate returns bear out early indications that full suffrage amendments were defeated, Tuesday, in Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Officers of the National Woman Suffrage association, last night, declared women voters were instrumental Tuesday, in passing the amendments in California that drive out pugilism and segregate vice quarters. They failed in driving out saloons, it was said, only because of the too drastic provisions of the amendment. Women aided materially, suffrage leaders claimed, in voting prohibition for Washington, Oregon and Colorado. <The \torkrillr (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.t FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1914 Failure of the United States government to help the cotton producers J is of wonderful assistance to the fellow the cotton producer has to sell to. Pay your debts if you can, and if you cannot, make agreeable and satisfactory arrangements with your creditors, pay them anyhow. It is clear that Uncle Joe Cannon does not want to die at all; but if he does die, he wants to die as a member of the house, and it looks as if he is going to have it that way. The managers of the Nobel Institute have decided to give the Nobel Peace prize this year to the Netherlands government to be applied to the support of Belgian refugees in Holland. The prize is worth $40,000. The election of Whitman as governor of New York over Glynn was something of a victory for Sulzer, who proudly boasts how the people stood by him, regardless of the newspapers, practically all of which were against him. j That affair between the British and German fleets down on the coast of Chile was a pretty severe jar to the assurance that maritime trade routes were open for British commerce. The public knew of the whereabouts of the Goeben and Breslau, the Emden and Karlsruhe; but the common impression seemed to be that there were few if any other German warships at large on the high seas. One of the results of the entrance of Turkey into the European war against the triple entente, will be to give Russia an opportunity to carry out her historic desire to get possession of , Constantinople. England is the country that has heretofore stood in the , way of Russia in this matter; but now, if the allies win, it is difficult to see how it will be possible to thwart Russia any longer. , German officers who were in the ( fight between the British and German fleets off Valparaiso, Chile, a few days ago, say that their victory was due largely to the superior range of their , guns and the heavier weight of metal they were able to deliver. The Germans opened a destructive fire at a distance of six miles and the British ttre was not effective until the range had been reduced to four miles. It is claimed that the British guns were old ( and out of date. The Germans give the British credit for having fought with great bravery. The absolute absurdity of our present method of amending the state constitution must have been apparent to all who were about the polls last Tuesday. But a small per cent of the voters who were confronted with the long arrav of ves and no tickets with a whole lot of printing on them, had any idea of what they meant, and very few of them cared. Many failed to vote on the amendments at all because it will give the managers too much trouble in the counting. And then there is another thing that must have suggested itself to everybody. With eleven constitutional amendment questions to be voted on with separate tickets for each amendment and only one box to put them in, there was absolutely nothing to prevent the voter, if he so desired, from voting all eleven tickets on one single proposition. It is all right to vote for all the state officers and all the state questions in one box maybe; but there should be but one ticket on which to ' do the voting. The farmers did not expect to give : their cotton for bonds for an investment. There would be no sense in swapping a 5 per cent note for a 5 per 1 cent bond on an investment basis. Every farmer as soon as he got his bond. , would have turned the bond into moil- < nnrt tho monev with which to pay his debts. If the bonds had been queered by litigation to an extent that would reduce their market value to a ' point that would not admit of an exchange for cotton at its market value the farmer would not swap his cotton 1 for bonds. If the farmer had already i swapped his cotton for bonds, and the ] bonds declined in value afterward there would be nothing to prevent the farmer from giving up his bonds and tak- i ing back his note and advanced interest. The slate would not obejct. It was not trying to make unymoney. The interest on the bond would have canceled the interest on the note, and ther? would be no expense except ware- i house charges and that expense would have to be incurred, bonds or no bonds ; if the cotton is to be made perfectly ; safe. The only possible risk or charge < that could have come to the taxpayers , would be the responsibility for the dif ference between the ordinary market price of cotton and 8 cents, the net amount taken up by the farmer. As soon as cotton should advance to 8 cents the responsibility of the general taxpayer would cease, and every point of advance beyond S cents, would be ;hat much prolit for the farmer. We have a letter from a friend In Columbia, which friend knows what he is talking about, explaining just why the bond issue bill did not become a law. According to this friend, it was not because there was any doubt about the practicability of the plan or of any risk or anything of that kind. No. not a bit of that. It was just plain, every day selfishness. Two Spartanburg bankers went before the committee in advocacy of the bond bill, but they wanted to make the coin- ; mittee provide that the banks should be made the fiscal agents of the state in the distribution of the fund, and the understanding was that if that proposition was agreed to everything would go swimingly. But members of the committee objected to the arrangement on the ground that this would give the preference to the customers of the banks, while the fellow who had no bank account and who did not stand in with the management would not get any show. They refused to agree to the proposition. Then two influential Spartanburg members, Mr. Carlisle in the senate, and Mr. Boyd in the house, started a big filibuster that resulted in the holding up of the bill until it was too late to get the proposition to the people, and that was all there was to it. 1 All that stuff about the danger involved and the dozeis of puerile argu- 1 ments to show why it would never do in the world to issue the bonds was j just that much buncombe. Governor Blease vetoed the miracie act," by which the general assembly sought to get its pay "right now," and the general assembly passed the bill over the governor's veto. In his veto ( message, the governor told the gen- < eral assembly that in undertaking to pass an act with nothing but a ! "number" as a basis, it was in clear violation of the constitution, and he < would not stand for the establishment J of a precedent which might be one of J the most dangerous in the history of j legislation. When the veto message J came up in the house, Mr. Stevenson 1 called attention to the fact that the | precedent had been established in the ! case of the original dispensary act, { when the general assembly had, in the last hours of the session, converted i the Childs prohibition bill into a liquor selling bill. We are inclined 5 to think that Governor Blease is en- ] tirely right in the position that he 1 took and that the precedent urged by Mr Stevenson Droves the fact. The , original dispensary law was the most ' pernicious piece of legislation that has 1 ever been foisted on the people of , the state, and the very manner of its enactment, in violation of the constitu- .< tion of the state, was an appropriate precedent for all the lawbreaking that followed. It would have been much < better, we think, if the general assembly had been willing to remain in , session until this oversight could t have been corrected in the regular < manner, or else waited until the ex- ] piration of the twenty days prescribed < by statute. < A man found a shoe string and built . a factory with it. It will take almost 1 equal genius for McLaurin to create a ( state warehouse system with that . *15,000 appropriation.?The Greenville Piedmont. It will have to be admitted that they , have put Mr. McLaurin up against 1 a knotty problem. It looks like they want to see if the man can make , bricks without straw. We have a f feeling, however, that Mr. McLaurin 1 would not have voted for the emas- * eulated bill, unless he felt quite certain that he knew what he was doing, and having voted for the bill he could not have refused to take office under it. It is quite evident that a good many people think that the "Father of the State Warehouse idea" is in a hole; but we are not willing to admit anything of the kind?not yet. Even though the law does not allow the warehouse commissioner to make any money for the state or to lose any money, there are still some possibilities in the situation. For instance, while the commissioner cannot pay the owner of a private warehouse any more for the rental of his property than the said owner can make out of the said property himself, it is quite probable that there are certain advantages that can be offered, which advantages will be calculated to induce the said owner to place his property under state management with the understanding that he is to continue as manager under state supervision and to have all the property makes. Then again, while the warehouse commissioner will not be allow- _ ed to negotiate loans in the name of , the state, there is nothing to prevent his doing so as an individual, and j with cotton in his possession and knowledge of who would like to bor- < row, it would seem that he might be ' able to get large sums of money at j low rates of interest, and to give the , would-be borrowers the fullest advantage of these rates. Also, it would seem that being in touch with hun- ( dreds of thousands of bales of cotton, f the grade of which has been guaranteed with reasonable accuracy, that is j of course provided the other ar- ] rangement has been perfected, and ' being at the same time in touch with * people who were most anxious for large lots of cotton and most willing i to pay the best prices, it might be ] iiuite possible for the commissioner ? to be able to make deal after deal that , would give to the producer virtually j the very top of the wholesale market, \ and knocking out any middle man f charges. It may be that the shoe from wmcn me siring was iusi is useless without the string, as the string is without the shoe, and having found the string maybe Mr. McLau- ' rin will be able to make the best use of it. If he gets a reasonably fair chance, we are sure he will. t m ( Tuesday's Elections. ^ As to whether the result of last Tuesday's election was really a sur- e prise to the Democratic national com- v mittee. it would be ditlicuil to say; j but it is certainly very much at vari- j ance with pre-election claims, which ? represented that the Democratic ma- f jority in the house would be held up c to away over a hundred, and that the t senate majority would also be very 1 much increased. * We are not exactly prepared to say ^ what may have been the cause of this f decided slump, whether dissatisfaction with the Wilson administration, j u natural tendency of the Republi- t cans who left their party two years E ago to follow Col. Roosevelt and his so-called Progressives, or the long t session of congress extending over the 1 campaign period and depriving Dem- 1 oerats of the opportunity of appear- r Ing before their constituents and ex- 1 plaining from a Democratic stand- 1 point what the Democratic party has { been doing. , If iu i-e.fi/ w?.11 fi, ffmnmher nnd f frankly admit, we think, that the big- 1 gest factor contributing to the elec- f tion of Mr. Wilson two years ago, was ? the split in the Republican party I caused by the antagonism between J President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. The greater part of Mr. Roosevelt's f following was drawn from the Repub- J lican party, and since the failure of , the Bull Moose movement to land in c its tirst effort, most of the members 1 thereof have naturally drifted back 't to their original moorings. The European war has naturally t demoralized political sentiment along with the demoralization of business, v and this taken together with the fact i that most of the congressional campaign were left almost entirely to the fellows who were out, who were free to criticise and misrepresent to their heart's content without a great deal of danger of being called down, it was natural that the voters should be led astray. But after all. perhaps, it was not so bad. The Democratic majority in the present house is far too large. It is too large to be handled effectively, and because of the tendency to arrogance it is just as well for the party and for the country that there be a thinning out. With the majority reduced down to twenty-three, which is ample to carry through any really Democratic legislation, providing all those who are sailing under Demo* *'? ??lAra aro trno t f\ thncp pnlnrs there will be less difficulty in keeping would-be recalcitrants in line, and the general tendency will be to more care and prudence in all kinds of legislation. ECHOES FROM THE WAR Tuesday's Battle of Ballots Brought Many Surprises. Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Colorado voted out saloons. Ohio and talifornia refused to do so. Woman suffrage won in Montana md Nevada and came very close in Nebraska. According to returns from the general election throughout the country jn Tuesday, Democrats have elected 226 members to the national house of epresentatives, Republicans 192, Progressives 10, and Socialists 1. The Democratic majority in the house is educed from 145 to 23, and the hith>Hn nnrrnw mainritv in the senate has jeen increased to 14. The Progressive representation in the house goes lown from 19 to 10. The twelve southern states will send 105 Democratic representatives to the lext congress out of a possible 112. The opposition to the Democrts in the south is distributed as follows: Tennessee?S. R. Sells, Republican, First district; Shorod Austin, Repubican, Second district. Oklahoma?Dick T. Morgan, Repubican, Eighth district; J. P. A. Gill, Republican, First district. North Carolina?James J. Britt, Republican, Tenth district. Virginia?C. B. Slemp, Republican, Ninth district. Louisiana?W. H. Martin, Progressive, Third district. The Tenth North Carolina, the First Dklahoma and the Third Louisiana seats in congress were held by Demo:rats the last session of congress. Senator Boise Penrose, Republican, jf Pennsylvania, has been returned to :he senate, overwhelmingly defeating 3ifford Pinchot, Progressive, and A. Mltcneil f aimer, uumuurai. iuai nil 5. Brumbough, Republican, was elected governor of Pennsylvania over Va. 2. McCormick, Democrat. In Colorado, Herbert Work, Repubican, defeated Senator Thomas, Dem>crat, for the senate. Senator Reed Smoot, Republican, of Utah, has been returned to the senate :rom that state. Governor Ben W. Hooper, Republican governor of Tennessee, was overwhelmingly defeated for re-election by Thomas C. Rye, Democrat. Lawrence Y. Sherman, Republican, vas re-elected United States senator 'rom Illinois over Roger C. Sullivan, Democrat, and Raymond Robins, Progressive. In Ohio, Warren G. Harding, Rejublican, was elected to the senate >ver Timothy S. Hogan, Democrat, and \rthur L. Garfield, Progressive. Jas. VI. Cox, Democratic governor of Ohio. ,vas defeated for re-election by Frank 3. Wells, Republican. Arthur Capper, Republican, editor )f the Topeka Capital, was elected jovernor of Kansas by 30,000 malority over Gov. Hodges, Democrat, jeeklng re-election. Gov. McGovern, Republican, of Wisconsin, was elected to the United States senate over Paul O. Hustlng, Democrat, by a plurality of 2,500. J. B. Kendrick, Democrat, was ilected governor of Wyoming. In Indiana, B. F. Shively was elected to the senate by a plurality of 13,000. The entire Democratic state :icket was elected. United States Senator George E. Chamberlain, Democrat, of Oregon, vas re-elected. Governor West, Dem>crat, was defeated for re-election by i Republican. Charles S. Whitman, former district lttorney for New York, who figured so prominently in the Rosenthal nurder trial, has been overwhelmingy elected governor of New York over Martin H. Glynn, Tammany candiiate. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Republican, has been elected to the Jnited States senate from that state. James R. Mann of Illinois, leader )f the minority in the house, has been eturned to congress. United States Senator Thomas P. lore of Oklahoma, Democrat, retains lis seat by a 25,000 majority. Joseph G. Cannon, former speaker if the house of representatives, denonstrated his ability to "come back," lefeating the Democratic candidate 'rom the Twenty-third Illinois disrict by a large majority. Governor Walsh of Massachusetts. Democrat, was re-elected. Five Democratic congressmen in Connecticut are to be succeeded by ive Republicans. Among the Democratic members of he house retired were Fltzhenry. D'Hair. Brochers and Balz of Illinois; Korbley of Indiana; Phelan and Thacker of Massachusetts; Townsend ind Walsh of New Jersey; O'Brien. Ten Eyck, Clancy, Gillins of New Fork: Bowdle of Ohio; Donahue, L.ogue of Pennsylvania. M. Clyde fCelley, Progressive, of Pennsylvania, ilso was defeated. Democrats gained me member in Kansas, W. A. Ayers >elng elected to the place made vacant )y the candidacy of Victor Murdock 'or the senate. GETTING THINGS IN SHAPE Commissioner McLaurin Makes Statement About Warehouse. Hon. John L. McLaurin on yesterlay gave out the following statement overing his operations in connection vith the proposed state warehouse system: "I shall be prepared next week to ntertain propositions to receive local . varehouses, and will publish the erms as soon as possible. With the imlted funds at my disposal, however. think it will be better for the farm- | >rs and merchants in every county to ret together and provide such storage oom as they can. I propose to ac ept corrugated iron warehouses in he country, where the insurance com- , sanies will take them, and I would suggest a type of warehouse which vould hold about 800 bales of cotton. 1 vhieh could be erected very speedily or about $500. "It is very important, if the people ' ire to hold their cotton, that it should >e placed in the form of some negoiable paper, so that the lien merchant ind others may be able, through their rnnks, to discount it, when the Fed ral reserve system goes into opera- * ion, November 16. A state warehouse < eceipt guaranteeing the title of coton and the weights and grades, is a 'orm of paper that has long been 1 leeded in the commercial world, and I am assured that it will find favor in he moneyed centres when it is prop*rly understood. "I believe that cotton can be stored nore cheaply at home than at standird warehouses, which are charging 10 cents a bale. "Secretary McAdoo has even gone 10 far as to say that cotton in the )pen on pile poles, covered with tarpaulin. would constitute prime comnercial paper under the Federal reserve act. "I am endeavoring to secure storage anilities in Columbia for distress coton. but in the meantime I hope that he people in the various counties will provide such storage facilities as they an. I will certainly go as far in ac epting this cotton as the terms of the ict creating the state warehouse sysem will permit. "Cotton has advanced and I hope he holding movement will continue. Hhe higher cotton goes, the better mrrowing basis it forms, to the advantage of the farmer and his eredtor." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Cloud Cash Store?Is temporarily closed on account of water damage; but will open again as soon as insurance is adjusted. Lyric Theatre?Has extra good programme all of next week. "Trey O'Hearts" Tuesday, every hour after 3 o'clock. Francis Ford on Saturday. Thomson Co.?Is well pleased with the opening day of its clearance sale, and invites you to take advantage of the low prices now offered. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Says it has the largest and best selection of coat suits, coats, millinery, shoes, clothing, dry goods, etc. i J. M. Stroup?Makes some remarks in regard to shoes and says he believes he has the biggest stock of good i shoes in Yorkville. R. J. Davis, Clover No. 2?Has 100 | bushels of seed wheat for sale. A. M. McGill, Yorkville No. 1?Wants 1 cotton seed at 31 cents a bushel in < trade. Also wants parties owing him . to settle at earliest convenience. Carroll Bros?Have 300 barrels of good ' nour, anu wm guarantee wie pnoe > for sixty days, if you buy now. i McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Offer a va- | riety of special bargains in seasonable goods for quick buyers. The City Market?Is running a milk | cow exchange and will either buy, sell or exchange with you. J. R. Deas, Filbert?Wants a good milk < cow and is willing to pay a fair price. j First National Bank, Yorkville?Prints its statement of condition at the f close of business, October 31. Has < resources of $356,496.01. t First National Bank. Sharon?Publish- ( es a statement of condition at the close of business October 31. Its re- ' sources total $148,400.89. ( Standard Oil Co.?On page four give i further suggestions for the use of the Perfection oil stove. There was never a time when the * people stood in more need of prompt ' and reliable information as to the happenings of the day, and there has never been a time when The Enquirer was able to give that information more promptly or more comprehensively, A prominent farmer of Catawba township, who was in Yorkville, yesterday, says the farmers in the vicinity of Xeely's Creek church, have the best crops of cotton and corn this year, that they have had, in the past ten years. Already fifty-three now subscribers have been returned by six clubmakers under our prospectus offer issued Tuesday. This is very gratifying to the publishers. It encourages us to hope for an increased subscription list notwithstanding discouraging condi- r tions. Mr. James Bryant of the Filbert sec- a tlon brought to The Enquirer office, t yesterday afternoon quite a freak in t the way of a sweet potato, or rather I o nluotor a # onraat nnfo aoq f a v,iuokci ui onccv ^uiaiuco, nuivu & were about three feet long. The potato was r.aised by Mr. A. W. Smoak 1 of Filbert, who has an unusually fine s crop of them this year. Mr. W. S. Wllkerson, chairman of s the board of pension examiners, desires The Enquirer to inform Confederate veterans and widows of Confederate veterans, that the January, 1914, session of the general assembly passed a concurrent resolution requiring the various county pension boards to prepare lists of all veterans and widows of veterans, residing in their respective counties. The county pension board has a list of all the Confederate soldiers and widows of Confederate soldiers who are drawing pensions, and of course, these are available; but what is wanted are the names of all other veterans and widows of veterans who are not now on the pension list. It will be seen at once that unless surviving soldiers or other public spirited citizens go to work and prepare complete lists of their respective townships, it is going to be exceedingly difficult to get this important information. Lists should be sent in to Mr. Wilkerson at Hickory Grove, as soon as possible, and in all cases the Information should include the number of the regiment and the letter of the company to which the veteran concerned belonged. PLENTY OF CORN When asked yesterday as to the condition of corn up his way, Mr. R. J. Davis, proprietor of Davis' mill, who was in the path of the hail storm of July 6, replied: "1 have already sold some corn for future delivery on the prospects of the crop not yet gathered." That sounded good, and in reply to further questions, Mr. Davis said that most of his cotton crop, though not all, was destroyed by the hail. The storm was more severe further east of him toward Catawba river. Some of his tenants will make some cotton, and he worked out a little hail-damaged cotton himself; but not a great deal. He had corn in the silking and tasselling stage when the storm came [ and some that had just come up. The young corn was not, and the older ^ corn has turned out pretty well. He j plowed up cotton and planted corn instead, and turned over some of his ^ fields to the crab grass, of which he r has made good crops. He has used considerable corn for silage and alto- * gether has a fair prospect for making ^ more corn than he has ever made in any one year since he has been farm- I ing. Some of it will be a little shriveled, by frost; but all of it will be usable. He had one acre of cotion planted on a patch where he had previously turned under crimson clover. The hail ruined the cotton, so he fur- v rowed the land without turning it, and planted corn. It looks like he may t get 60 bushels. Asked about wheat, Mr. Davis said v he was afraid the people are not going v to sow as much as they ought to. "I ^ do not know why they are showing so ^ little interest," he said, "but it seems to me that if there ever was a time y when there was every inducement to E sow wheat, now is that time. And the season is just right. The killing ^ frost not long ago gave us some security against the fly, and that is something worth while. There ought to be e about five bushels of wheat sowed by every family in the county. Some peo- v pie say that two and a half bushels Js enough to bread a family; but I think v five bushels is better." d WITHIN THE TOWN. |j ? Several memLers of the A. R. P. P church of Yorkville, assisted by others, have been busy this week sowing the ^ church grounds with lawn-grass. Much y pains and care have been taken in preparing the grounds, and the congrega- v tion hopes to have a beautiful lawn n next spring. ? Officers and members of the Ladies' j Floral society of the First Pres- C byterian church of Yorkville, are high- v ly pleased at the result of the flower .. show held Tuesday. Practically all the tj flowers, candies and fancy work were C sold, and the ladies were unable to servo'all those who came in for supper Cl Tuesday evening. ? ? The walls of the lobby of the Yorkville postoffice have been plastered F with many government bulletins of late giving information as to civil service examinations, etc. One of the rnust interesting bulletins at the postoffice is President Wilson's neutrality proclamation in regard to the war in Europe. The proclamation is printed In English. French, German, Italian and Polish. ? The fire department was called out shortly after noon today because of the burning of a barn on the premises of Mr. J. E. Stroup on Wright avenue. The fire caught from a grass plot that was being burned nearby. The loss amounts to probably $300. ? Mr. R. B. Lowry, Yorkville agent, has announced that the Southern Express company will transport free of charge packages for the Christmas relief ship to the Belgians, provided they weigh less than 100 pounds. The packages must be addressed to the United States ship Jason, Brooklyn navy yard, and must be marked, "for the Christollln" Coiforol V ? i 11 ..n^.dn it itir> ?t* ai luinviiic ^cuj;ic iiave already directed such packages. ? Fire was discovered in the Wylie ouilding, on Main street, about three o'clock this morning, the blaze originating in the office of Dr. R. H. VIcFadden, over the Cloud Cash store, rutting the office and the water doing :onsiderable damage to the stock of he Cloud Cash store. Prompt work of the fire department kept the lames within the doctor's office. The origin of the fire is unknown. The oss will amount to several hundred lollrs, fully covered by insurnce. ? One of the largest audiences that >ver attended a Yorkville picture show law the initial installment of the serial oroduction, "The Trey O* Hearts," at he Lyric Theatre, Wednesday evenng. From seven until ten o'clock the heatre was crowded, even standing oom hardly being available. Local notion picture critics, and there are nany Yorkville people who are compeent to Judge owing to their frequent dsits to the picture show, say the new lenai is rar superior to leucine L,ove, he last serial shown here. They say he plot, the actors and scenery are ar superior. Cleo Madison, the herone, is the equal if not the superior of 3race Cunard (Lucile Love), in beauy, grace and artistic ability. ; ' j THE MARRIAGE RECORD Fifteen hundred and eighty-eight 1 narriage licenses have been issued in fork county since the passage of the ict requiring licensure. Thirty-four of hese licenses have been issued since he last publication of the list in The , inquirer, of October 6. They are as ollows: Oct. 6?Fred L. Crump and Bertie 1 largett. 1 Oct. 8?William A. Mitchell and Bes- I ie E. Blair. Oct. 8?J. Kilgore Williford and Besie M. Lesslie. Oct. 9?William G. Adams and Ruth dcGlll. Oct. 9?Charles Hymes and Fannie ; fohnson (colored). Oct. 10?Will Hall and Laura Nash pnlnrAfl^ i Oct. 10?Mack McClellan and Maha- . ie Jefferson (colored). Oct. 10?Broadus Rogers and Myrtle Deale. ' Oct. 10?Hamlet Turner and Minnie Idams. Oct. 12?N. Craig McCorkle and Elizabeth W. Hunter. 1 Oct. 12?Samuel Walker Nelson and Docia Burgess. Oct. 13?Victor Q. Hambright and 1 Cdna Robinson. Oct. 13?James B. Marshall, Jr., and , ..ucile Frew. Oct. 13?Rev. Charles Haddon Na>ors and Minnie Belle Whitesides. Oct. 14?Bright Smith and Blanche 1 Dostner. Oct. 17?Lawrence Phillips and Sara iinton (colored). Oct. 17?John Boyd and Janie Wiliams (colored). Oct. 17?Odies Bigger and Cora Bar- ' iett (colored). 1 Oct. 17?Lon Burnett and Ethel Noan. Oct. 17?Claud Bowlar and Lula Davis (colored). Oct. 17?John Lumpkins and Lillie J Vhlte (colored). Oct. 17?Buren Melton and Amelia * .Vallace. Oct. 17?John McCaw and Viola ; tawlinson (colored). Oct. 17?Sam Woods and Alice Neey (colored). Oct. 18?Alford Biggerstaff and Lil- | ie Black. Oct. 20?David H. Henry and Etta . d. Sadler. , riot 91?finv W T")iirham anri Ma nie L. Carothers. Oct. 22?Claud F. Inman and Laura j "eatherstone. , Oct. 22?Odes Deal and Bertha May , dcCarter. Oct. 23?Will Rainey and Ollie Han- , ock. j Oct. 24?George Poag and Annie j Joore (colored). Oct. 24?Joseph T. Crews and Mag- < rie Aslee. Oct. 24?Walter McGill and Martha , Dye (colored). , Oct. 24?Banks Nivens and Leddie j Jannie. < Oct. 26?Geo. W. Wilson and Ge-'rgi- ? nna Smart. , t. 28?Lee Black and Beulah May , "erris. j Oct. 29?Isaiah Garven and Cora ( Villlams (colored). ' Oct. 30?John Gaines and Mary J. , Dora (colored). i Oct. 30?Charlie Montgomery and lary Wilkes (colored). I Oct. 31?James Emmett Jackson and leulah Dickson. i Oct. 31?Floyd Burton and Bessie s >rris. c o 1 \\T T Aii'rif oriH \forv . V7WI, ox uunrjMi t?. xajw I J ?HU *UUI J J lob Watts (colored). t Nov. 3?William M. Turner and Cora ? >ee Brimer. t Nov. 5?James Dover and Mamie ^ ^terson. s c ABOUT PEOPLE J Mr. J. Miller Drakeford of Columbia, > isited relatives in Yorkville, this week, j Mr. Blakely Plexico of Yorkville, ttended the Spartanburg county fair t his week. Miss Bessie McConnell of Yorkville, t isited relatives in Rock Hill, this j reek. Mrs. John W. Miller and son of r 'orkville, are visiting relatives at s king's Creek. t Mrs. E. A. Hall and son, Everett, of f 'orkville, left today, to visit Mrs. J. f 1. Efird in Monroe, X. C. Dr. and Mrs. Thos. N. Dulin of tethel, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Ad- I ms, in Ebenezer, this week. Prof. W. R. Koon of Bethany, at- t ended a meeting of the state board of c dueation In Columbia, last week. t Mr. Geo. H. O'Leary of Yorkville, * ,*ho was Injured by a fall about two 1 eeks ago is improving steadily. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sadler of Yorkillo, attended the Fewel-Wlnn wed- . ing In Rock Hill, Tuesday evening. j Rev. and Mrs. A. A. McLean have s eturned to Clover and are at home c i the Presbyterian parsonage at that I lace, b Mrs. J. W. Torrence returned to p er home In Gastonla, yesterday, after visit to Mrs. M. A. Bludworth, in orkville. y Miss Fannie Stroup, who has been j, isiting friends in Charlote. N. C., rearned to her home in Yorkville, last Ight. c Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore and Mrs. v . B. Bowen and son, J. B. Jr., of n harlotte. visited relatives in York- / ille, this week. 1; Misses Mary O'Farrell, Ella and ^ !ate Cody of Yorkville. are attending ' le funeral of Mr. McD. Arledge, in f harlotte, today. Rev. E. E. Gillespie, who has been v rmducting a meeting at McBee " hurch for the past ten days, has re- IV trned to his home in Yorkville. Mrs. M. A. McClue and Miss Kate A aulkner, have returned to their home si at King's Creek, after a visit to Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Lummus at Edgemoor. Mr. Thos. J. Nichols of Yorkville No. 6, who was operated on at the Magdalene hospital, Chester, Saturday continues to improve and expects to return home in the next few days. York county friends have received invitations to the marriage of Miss Hollie Torrence to Mr. Geo. A. Gray, the ceremony to take place in the First Presbyterian church of Gastonia, on Wednesday evening November 18. Miss Minnie Alexander, missionary to India, who is now in Charlotte, expects to leave that place this afternoon for New York, from whence she will in company with nine other missionaries, soon sail for India. Miss Alexander spent some time in York county this summer. Although the return to India is a perilous venture at this time, Miss Alexander is anxious to return to her work, and hopes to secure passage within a week or ten days. Friends and acquaintances or Dr. Derieux in York county, will doubtless be interested in the following from the Greenville News: Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Derieux, Miss Minnie Derieux and Thomas Derieux will henceforth make their home in Columbia, as the headquarters of the Baptist state mission board has been removed from Greenville to that city. Dr. and Mrs. Derieux and Miss Derieux will go to Columbia today, and will reside at 912 Pickens street. Thomas Derieux is now attending the university of South Carolina, so is already in Columbia. The state Baptist convention decided some time since that the headquarters of the denomination should be in Columbia, and the removal of the secretary and family is in accordance with this decision. Mr. Henry James of Yorkville, was hurt on the Spartanburg fair grounds yesterday, and Is In the Spartanburg hospital. Mrs. James left for Spartanburg this morning, and It may be that Mr. James can be brought home tonight or within a few days. A Spartanburg dispatch of yesterday tells the story of the unfortunate mishap as follows: "Henry James, the well known horseman of Yorkville, came near losing his life this morning while driving his blue ribbon mare in the first of the arena events before the grandstand. Traveling at a rapid clip, in making a turn too sharp, the buggy was thrown completely over, landing on the driver. Realizing the impending danger of a runaway with subsequent serious injuries to his fine horse, Mr. James grabbed for the lines and was dragged a complete semicircle. The mare took another plunge forward, releasing the lines from the hands of the driver. With a quick move Mr. James grabbed one of the rear wheels of the buggy and finally brought the horse to a standstill. Mr. James was Injured about the leg. thigh and ankle, none of which, however, was serious, pronounced the examining physician." LOCAL LACONICS Progress On County Home. The brick work on the new county home has been completed. There is much other work to be done, however ind the building will hardly be completed before the new court house is finished. Roberts' Successor Selected. The Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce has elected Mr. W. R. Timmons of Greenville, to succeed Mr. C. W. Roberts as secretary of the organization. Secretary Timmons will begin the duties of his new position within the next few days. The General Election. Very few York county voters went to the polls Tuesday. Only 93 votes were cast in the state and county box in Yorkvllle, and only 71 in the Federal box. The vote at the other precincts of the county was in proportion. The constitutional amendment relating to Lhe Yorkville Graded school district carried almost unanimously in Yorkville. Sharon Warehouses. Citizens of Sharon and vicinity interested in the Sharon Warehouse company of that place, have completed the work of erecting their warehouse. A good deal of cotton has been stored in the new building. The warehouse of the Hill Banking and Mercantile company at Sharon, is nearlng completion, and will be ready for business in a short time. Grinding Much Corn. Mr. S. L. Blair of Blalrsvillc, who was in Yorkville yesterday, having come to bring the election boxes, says the people of his community have made i good corn crop this year, in fact one jf the best crops they have ever made. Mr. Blair says he has beengringing on iverage, 100 bushels of corn each Saturday for people in his section for sometime past. Blairsville School. School at Blairsville has not opened for the fall term yet, owing to the fact that the patrons are remodeling the school building and have not completed the work. The capacity of the building is to be doubled by reason of the improvements. The building is so irranged that the whole can be thrown into one large auditorium. The trustees expect the fall term to begin in ibout two weeks with Mr. Clyde Ratchford and Mrs. S. A. Mitchell in charge. On the Lookout for Hughes. York county police officers have received circulars containing the picture md description of Will Hughes, the Spartanburg desperado who killed Jhaingang Guard Robert Stevens, near ~w..-,, i?< # ?.Aob wviiio 3JJU.I LaitUUl g, 1UOL r? ccn. uuciul nuuu Jt Spartanburg, has sent a description )f Hughes to officers in every part ot N'orth and South Carolina, and his capture is expected at any moment. The muhderer is said to have been seen lear GafYney, Monday. A large reward s offered for his capture. 'risoners for County Chaingang. Supervisor Thos. W. Boyd and Deplty Sheriff F. E. Quinn went to the itate farm at Boykins, S. C., yesterlay, and returned last night with four tegro convicts who were taken to the :ounty chaingang today. The negroes ire serving terms from twenty years o life time, and were of course, convicted in York county. There are now ibout forty convicts on the county chaingang, and it is likely that the lumber will be increased after the :ourt of general sessions which convenes in Yorkville, Nov. 23. 3ig Yield of Cotton. Mr. J. E. Latham of Bullock's Creek ownship, who was in Yorkville, Wedtesday, said that he had already got,en ten bales of cotton, averaging 500 )ounds each, off of that three and onelalf acres, mention of which was nade in The Enquirer several weeks igo. Mr. Latham did not expect fo fet more than nine bales at most, off he three and a half acre field. He las not yet gone over the field for the ast time. This is probably the banler yield of the county. )eath of Miss Lula McKniqht. Following an illness of only a short t ime. Miss Lula McKnight, daughter t if the late Calvin McKnight, died at i he home of her brother. Mr. W. C. c iIcKnight, near Smyrna, Monday afernoon. The deceased was about < ighteen years of age, and was well c mown by a wide circle of friends and 2 .cqualntances. She was for several r ears a member of the Smyrna A. R. t \ church, from which place funeral ( ervices were held, Tuesday afternoon, r onducted by her pastor. Rev. G. B. t 'ressley. Miss McKnight is survived t iy one sister and three brothers. :ewell-Winn. c Miss Anna Kate Fewell, daughter s f Mrs. Kate Fewell of Rock Hill, and c Ir. Henry J. Winn of Clinton, were r aarried in the Oakland Avenue Pres- c iyterian church, Rock Hill, Wednesday t light, in the presence of a large con- t our so of relatives and friends. This o i-edding was the first marriage cere- v aony to be performed in the Oakland ? lvenue church, which has only recent- 1 y been completed. The pastor, Rev. fl llexander Martin, officiated. The a ride is well known in various sec- t ions of the county, and has often vis- r ted in Yorkvllle. The groom is a I usiness man of Clinton, where the a oung couple will reside. t Missionaries Must Be Silent. j. A letter received recently from a liss Mary Lesslie, an A. R. P. mis- s ionary to India, by her father, Mr. . W. S. Lesslie of Lesslie, stated that British authorities in India had notified missionaries. Miss Lesslie included, that they must not In their ^| letters to home and friends, speak of Ap the war situation in Europe or of the Mp activities of German ships in Indian waters. Consequently, Miss Lesslie says nothing of the war in her letters home. The letter which was written on September 24, stated that all the missionaries were in good health, and that their efforts were proving highly successful. | Dickson-Jackson. A surprise marriage of interest to their many friends, was that of Miss Eula Dickson and Mr. James Emmett Jackson of Clover, which took place nt tho ado *ta ronnn cp in Ynrk- ^ vlll, Wednesday afternoon, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. L. Oates. The bride is a daughter of Mr. Martin E. Dickson of Clover, and has a host of friends and acquaintances. The groom lb a young man of sterling worth, well known In the Clover section. A number of friends of the young couple witnessed the ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson left for Columbia. They are expected to return to Clover today. Rev. Mr. Lummus at Anderson, W The following from the Anderson Daily Mail, will prove of Interest to York county Associate Reformed Presbyterians and the many friends of m Rev. R. A. Lummus, who is well known in every section: "The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. R. A. Lummus or Richburg. His sermon was one of the prettiest and most felt that has ever been heard In the A. R. P. church. His subject was 'Pattern for the Church Today.' The sermon was all that a dedicatory sermon could have possibly been, and after hearing Rev. Lummus speak, there was not a member of the congregation 41 that was not proud of being connected with the A. R. P. church of this city and having had a part in the building of their beautiful church." Death of Mr. McDuff Arledge. ^ Mr. McDuff Arledge, who will be remembered by the older citizens of Yorkville as a former resident of this place, died at his home in Charlotte about eight o'clock yesterday morning, following a long illness. He was 81 years old, having been born in Edgefield county, South Carolina, Jan. 21, 1833. For the past 62 years, Mr. Arledge has resided in Charlotte." In 1865 he was married in Yorkville, to , / Miss Julia A. Palmer, sister of the ** late Patrick Palmer. He was a member of Trinity Methodist church of Charlotte, and one of the oldest Masons in North Carolina. Three children, Messrs. T. D. and R. F. Arledge, *| and Mrs. W. L. Bruns, survive. The funeral was held at the home of his rimichtor In PharlnttA thin mnrnlnif MERE-MENTION Twenty-one present and former directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, were indicted by the grand jury of the criminal branch of the Federal district court in New York, Monday. They are charged with conspiracy to monopolize railroad traffic in the New England states The Panama canal was blocked by * another slide on Saturday. Col. Goe- I thals said he hoped to have the canal clear by Wednesday... .W. K. Vanderbilt has donated (113,750 to Columbia University, New York, to buy a site for a medical school After a trial lasting two weeks, Jared Flagg, a Wall street broker, was convicted in 9 the Federal court, New York, on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Flagg had a "sure thing" scheme in which he promised his dupes 52 per cent annual returns The remains of Samuel Parks, a private of the Twenty-eighth U. S. infantry, who rode out of the American lines at Vera Cruz, Mexico, on May 7, and was never seen again, have been found ftp and General Funston will send the charred bones of the soldier to the United States. Parks was executed and his body partly cremated The body of General A. R. Chaffee, U. S. army, who died at Los Angeles, Cal., Sunday, will be interred in Ar- ? lington cemetery, District of Columbia, Saturday The steamship Jason will leave Brooklyn, N. Y., November 10, loaded with Christmas gifts for the orphaned children of Belgium. More than a million articles, including toys, candies, clothing, shoes, etc., will make up the cargo. It is suggested that the Jason bring a cargo of orphans to this country on its return trip, to be kept here until the war ? ends Interstate shipment of cattle in several middle western states has been prohibited by the agricultural department, on account of mouth and foot disease among the cattle that have been shipped to Chicago Wm. J. Hartley and Jas. J. Farmer y were convicted in the United States court in New York, Monday, on a charge of using the mails to defraud nr Aro t n?n o rro r\ cr r\ ? otirin/Hnra A. lit J ?TClt I n U Wl a guug VTA. O T* iiiUIVI 0 who worked well known book lovers, selling them rare copies of limited edition works at very high prices. The gang is alleged to have cleaned up $7,500,000 in five years Since January 1st, 267 children have been killed by various kinds of vehicles on the streets of New York The Georgia railroad commission has notified the 0 railroads of that state that until business conditions materially improve with the railroads, the commission will be as lenient as possible in the matter of ordering improvements, such as new depots, terminal facilities, etc. ....Buyers from Norway are negotiat- ^ ing with Pennsylvania dealers for 9 25,000 barrels of apples The total assessment of railroad property in New Jersey, is $334,833,007 This year, Kansas farmers had 9,000,000 acres planted in wheat, and the yield was approximately 186,000,000 bushels. It is stated that approximately 12,000,000 acres will be sowed in wheat this fall and next spring A Kane county, Illinois, farmer had 59 cattle, 300 sheep and 100 hogs killed, Monday, on account of being infected with the ^ foot and mouth disease Adolph Langhorst, an ex-lieutenant of the United States army, died in a Philadelphia hospital, Monday, from bichloride of mercury poisoning, taken by mistake The Norwegian steamship Belridge, arrived at Newport * News, Va., Monday, with the nine * members of the crew of the American schooner Charles W. Church, which foundered at sea on Saturday, rhe rescue was made during the prevalence of a 45-mile gale, and after the crew of the schooner had worked for six days at the pumps trying to keep ner afloat Mount Vesuvius is tgain active and a repetition of the disaster of 1906 is feared The 111,000,000 Argentine battleship, built it Camden, N. J., and undergoing trial iff the coast of Maine, is disabled on iccount of an accident to one of her .urbine engines. The ship has been aken to Quincy, Mass Minnesota n 1913, produced 132,117,914 pounds of jutter, and received J34.955.885 for it. The White Star liner Olympic. eached London safely, Tuesday, after i perilous passage from New York, ^ lispatches stating that the liner struck i mine which failed to explode V five-story fertilizer plant in Chicago, he property of Armour & Co., was lestroyed by fire, Tuesday. The loss. vill approximate $150 000 Presilent Wilson voted at Princeton. N. J., ruesday.... John L. Parker, president )f the Birmingham, Ala., board of allermen and prominent in political md financial circles in that city, comnitted suicide, Friday. Financial roubles was the cause James H. isgood. founder of the "underground ailroad" by which fugitive slaves vere aided in escaping to the north, lied In Chicago, Tuesday, aged 98 -ears A Paris dispatch says Drs. fames Scarlett and George Des Jarlius. of the American ambulance reerve have discovered a microbe which auses gangrene in bullet and shraplel wounds. A serum has been dlsovered to offlset the disease and is >eing injected into patients on the >attlefield Monroe Drew, editor if the Kaufmaw, Texas, Herald, thla reek, received a notice signed "Capt. Co. 4," which he was ordered to ptvbish under penalty of having his ofIce burned. The notice demanded that .11 farmers reduce cotton acreage wo-thirds under threat of punishnent. Several farmers living near Caufmaw have received letters from Jk lleged "white cappers." demanding hat they reduce acreage Earl H. teynolds, aged 28, was last week, lected president of the Peoples' Trust nd Savings bank of Chicago, an intitution with a capital of $7,500,000. "Jack" Sheridan, dean of urn