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Scraps and J-acts. ? Property valued at $500,000,000? or enough to construct another Panama canal?Is destroyed by tire annually In the United States, according to toe computations of insurance companies. This fact was pointed out by \\ illiam C. Guerin, former chief of the bureau of tire prevention in New York city, at a meeting of the Philadelphia Safety council, last Friday. A large percentage of the fires in New York city, he said, were deliberately caused by bands of unscrupulous persons who insured properties only to burn them. Legislation and education are needed to lessen the number of fires, he said. ? Justice Lamar on yesterday refused to issue a writ of error to the United States supreme court for review of the conviction of Leo M. Frank, for the murder of Mary Phagan, a factory girl, in Atlanta, in 1913. Frank's attorneys applied to Lamar for the writ on the ground that a right under the constitution had been denied Frank when the Jury's verdict was returned during his absence from the court room. Henry Alexander, attorney for Frank, said he was unable to announce whether the application for a writ will be presented to other Justices until he had conferred with his associate, Henry Peebles. ? The American troops, under General Funston, who have been holding Vera Cruz since last April, evacuated the city yesterday, and are on their way back to the United States. There are about six thousand troops in all, mostly infantry. The first move in the evacuation was the withdrawal of the most distant outposts. Constitutionalist troops in the vicinity, followed the outposts and took charge of the city as the Americans left. As a condition to the evacuation the Washington government had previously exacted a promise from both the rival Mexican factions that the citizens of Vera Cruz, who had been employed under the Americans In various capacities would not be molested. ? Thomas B. Evans, late postmaster of Scammon, Kan., found last winter, that his books showed him indebted to the government nearly $1,000. Worry over the discovery made him ill. The office had been entered by burglars some months before, but, nothing being missed, he had not reported the matter to the postofflce department. Evans, saying nothing to his family, began making up the supposed shortage and at the time of his death some months ago, had completed payment. Auditors of the department, checking through the books, discovered an error and found that Evans did not owe the government anything. Mrs. Evans, on Friday, received a check for $920.81 from the department, the amount Evans made sacrifices to pay. ? A preparation which, it is said, will stop almost instantly the flow of blood from a wound, has been invented by Prof. Theodore Kocher of Berne, who was awarded the Nobel prize for surgery in 1912, and his assistant. Dr. A. Fonce, says a Geneva, Switzerland, dispatch. The new preparation is called coagulen. It is in the form of a powder, and is dissolved in water before being applied to a wound. The discoverers of coagulen have made a gift of their invention to the armies in the field, and have sent large quantities of the powder to the surgical headquarters of both German and French 1 A1 I IS rOP-U PHPH H V armies. i ut- uiawmj ?? . ^?? medical men as likely to save the lives of thousands of soldiers, since it can be applied by untrained hands, so that the wounded man himself or his comrade might use the solution. ? The fifth cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. m., last Saturday, announced that 11,624,708 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1914, has been ginned prior to November 14. This compared with 10,444,529 bales, or 74.7 per cent of the entire crop, ginned prior to November 14. last year, 10,299,646 bales, or 76.4 per cent in 1912 and 11,313,236 bales, or 72.7 per cent in 1911. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 14, in the past seven years was 9,406,645 bales or 74.2 per cent of the crop. Included in the ginnings were 32,454 round bales compared with 74, - ~? 3 f\co 167 last year, 62,7t>s in isis ana in 1911. Sea Island cotton included numbered 53,875 bales, compared with 51.950 bales last year, 40,389 bales in 1912 and 71,204 bales in 1911. ? It has developed that the action of the Turkish land forces at Smyrna in firing upon the launch of the Tennessee as it sought to enter the harbor of Smyrna, hud no hatish or unfriendly interest whatever. So Washington has beer) unofficially informed. It appears that when Capt. Decker of the Tennessee made known his desire to visit the American consul at Smyrna, the Turkish "overnor general advised him that he would take him to the consulate in an automobile. Capt. Decker preferred to go in his launch, and when he approached the mined channel, a solid shot across the bows of his launch warned him to stop. The launch was headed about, and that was about all there was to it, except that reports went abroad that the launch of the Tennessee had been fired upon. Grecian territory borders close upon that of the Turks near Smyrna, and the Tennessee anchored in the harbor of Chios, an island only a few miles away. The state department does not consider the incident as having any significance whatever. ? The British cruiser, Glasgow, which was in the fight with the Ger man squadron off the coast of Chile on November 1, arrived at Rio Janeiro on November 17, and was permitted to enter the harbor for such repairs as could be made within seven days. The captain of the Glasgow reported that upon the approach of the German squadron. Admiral Cradock ordered the Glasgow and the transport Otranto to seek a place of refuge. This was because of the higher power and greater speed of the German vessels. Notwithstanding the order of the admiral. the Glasgow fired several shots at the German squadron, and received five holes in her hull. The battleship Canopus was attached to the squadron at the time of the encounter, but was some thirty miles away and because of her slow speed, only sixteen knots an hour, was unable to reach the scene before the fighting was over. Admiral Cradock and the crews of the Good Hope and the Monmouth went down with their ships. ? Merchants and manufacturers of seventeen southern states met at Memphis, Tenn., last Friday, to begin a preliminary campaign with a view to extending trade in Central and South America. It was pointed out that the first prerequisite to success was the organization of a large bank with the special object of facilitating the exchange of credits between the United States and the South and Central American countries, and committees were appointed to work out details. For one thing, it was agreed to see to what extent the treasury department would assist in the organization of branch banks in Central and South America. The amount of capital that will be necessary in carrying out the plans or me organization Iln-, been determined upon: but the understanding is that merchants and manufacturers of the south and of the Mississippi valley are to be depended upon to supply .he money. Edward E. Gore of Chicago, has been put in charge of the executive management of the conference. ? The "2-cent-a-gallon" fuel for motive power as a substitute for gasoline is being heralded by automobile manufacturers as an unqualified success says an Indianapolis, lnd.. dispatch of Friday. The second leg of the scheduled 1 OOU-mile grind was completed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday evening. und? r the critical eyes of American Automobile association officials and "zoline.** the new fuel." won out in the test in spite of a second day of rigid atmosphere. Thirty additional miles were added to the test, making 1.030 in all. The 1 030 miles were run in 20 hours and 32 minutes and 4 seconds from the time the test was started on Tuesday until it was completed at nightfall. The actual running time fur the total mileage was 18 hours. 24 minutes and 4 seconds, an average of 55.03 miles an hour. The average amount of the newfuel used in the test was only 46 gallons to the 300 miles, while under similar conditions it takes an average of 33 gallons of gasoline to the 300 miles according to the past trials. The fastest lap made in the test was the next to the last one. driven by Ted Collier, head tester for the Marmon company. That lap was made in 2.21, and average of 62.85 miles an hour. The lirst 100 miles of Friday's test was made in one hour, 49 minutes and 9.8 seconds, an average of 54.85 miles an hour. The driver was Vere Barnes, who was with Joe Dawson in the last 500-mile Decoration Day race, and Collier was his relief. Automobile manufacturers declared that the time made with the new fuel was remarkable, especially in view of the fact that u stock car was used. (The ^lorlirillc tfnquirtr. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. TORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1914 Thrift and industry* make a winning combination. Do you think, or do you allow the other fellow to do your thinking for you? The principal advantage one man has over another, when there is an advantage, comes from knowledge. The Progressive Farmer calculates that if all the horses and mules in the south were fed on cotton seed meal at the rate of two pounds a day each, it would consume all the meal that is made from a 15,000,000 bale cotton crop and the saving to the south would be ?45,UUU,UUU. ine rrugieaanc Farmer claims that cotton seed meal is better than either corn or oats for feeding horses and mules, and argues also that the manure is of much greater value than that obtained from other feedstuffs. Most people in this country take it as a matter of course that the final outcome of the European war will be the conquest of Germany by the allies, but it will be pretty generally conceded now that except for the part that Russia has been taking, Germany would already have made a very different showing in France and along the English channel. Just now it appears that the Russians are getting the worst of it, and it is easily possible that they may get a plenty within the next few weeks. The situation seems to suggest that if Russia should be forced to separate peace, and such a thing is not impossible, the situation fnr Eneland and France, over on the | western side of the problem, will become all the more serious. As to what the Wade fund of $135,000.000 is going to do for the cotton owners, we do not know. We thought at first that the United States government ought to do something, and we think so yet. We believe that bond issue proposed at the last session of the general assembly, would have helped out the situation in South Carolina and that it would have spread to other southern states, and we believe so yet. We have not looked upon the Wade proposition as promising anything like as much as either of the other propositions, even though it should be carried into effect; but if the Wade proposition should result in the bringing of some money to the south, it will help. However, there is nothing to do but wait. If the Observer had printed half the articles that were sent to it for publication by the Nutlonal Good Roads congress, and if it were to print the half that are sent by the International exposition, and a fraction of the other things sent in for free space, there would not be room left for the news or for paid advertisements. We are willing to help along public enterprises to a reasonable extent; but it strikes us that public enterprises might help the newspapers once in a while. Haven't they publicity funds? ?Newberry Observer. If the Observer had printed the stuff of which it speaks, the probate | court would have been warranted in taking charge of it. The thing to do with such matter is to put it in the waste basket and say nothing, for if the Observer's space is not worth paying for it is not worth using, and if the Observer prints such stuff without charge, nobody is going to pay. The primary duty of a newspaper is to try to give its readers something, not to get something out of them for itself or anybody else. All press agency stuff is more or less fraudulent, and the editor does his readers and himself an injustice in allowing it to get hy. The public has very little respect for the deadbeat advertiser, and the average newspaper reader has no ? fix tho uriitfkt* ivhfi falls iliui c i *w? uiv v _ to protect him from such deadbeats. In our view of the matter, Representative Bradford was exactly right in the position he took the other day, with reference to the matter of backing up the court house commission in agreeing to give the architect a rakeoff in the purchase of furniture for the court house. If the commission had been vested with authority to provide furniture, the matter would have been different, and we are quite sure that Mr. Bradford's position would have been different. But when the commission undertook to go beyond its powers and assume to do something it was not called upon to do, it is gratifying to know that the county has a representative with the nerve and backbone to call them down. Embarrass the commission? The idea! It is the delegation in the general assembly that the responsibility rests upon, and they will have to answer to the people for unnecessary extravagance. There are no doubt those who will have it in for Representative Bradford for thus speaking up as he did; but if they succeed in discrediting hini with the voting taxpayers for whom j he was so boldly standing out, he will still retain his self respect ns the result of his refusal to allow himself to be overriden as though he were a I dummy. We have In America thousands and hundreds of thousands of patriotic citizens who think that this country is the greatest on earth, and they are correct. It is the richest country that the sun has ever shone upon, and there is no country in which the people generally are making more rapid strides in social, industrial and educational development. Hut it is well to remember occasionally that in many things we are in our infancy and in financial and economic knowledge nearly all of the European countries are centuries ahead of us. This is particularly true as to Great Britain, which is easily the farthest advanced country in the world from an industrial and financial standpoint. It is easy for the average individual in this country to figure out how at the close of this great war. there will follow a period of industrial activity the like of which the world has never seen and how the United States, provided it does not become involved in the widespread destruction now going on, I will be placed in a position of peculiar advantage with reference to all other civilized countries; but in this connection it is worth while to consider in connection with what has been said, this observation of a few days ago from Lloyd George, the chancellor of the British exchequer: "Immediately after war there must be a period of reconstruction?not merely here, but in Europe, where enormous demands will be made on the manufacturing resources of the country. During the war and during the period of reconstruction there will be practically no competition in the neuttal markets of the world, except from America, and I think we can look forward to four or five years in which our industries will have an artificial stimulus which comes from these abnormal conditions. But when that period is over we shall be face to face with one of the most serious industrial situations with which we have ever been confronted. We shall have exhausted an enormous amount of the capital of the world and our purchasers at home and abroad will be crippled." The wisdom born of centuries of experience is behind what the great British statesman has said. He is speaking especially with reference to his own country, of course. He sees that it will be several years after the great war, provided England wins, that his people will be up against it. The danger to America will be too much prosperity. If it were possible for our own statesmen to study out intelligently the situation that might naturally be expected to develop In this country during the period referred to, socially, industrially, financially and otherwise, they might be able to so shape matters that our prosperity would continue indefinitely. The Right to Hunt. There Is a growing sentiment throughout this country in the direction of the prevention of indiscriminate hunting on the lands of another, without permission and the strength of this sentiment is becoming more apparent every day. During the early settlement and for generations thereafter, the right to hunt wild game wherever it was to be found, was unquestioned, and such a thing as trespass in an open field was unknown. The reasons were obvious. Among the reasons were the fact that wild game was so far in excess of the needs of any individual of any sparsely settled community that it was absurd for anybody to think of being querrelous about such a matter, and neighbors were so widely separated, and the necessity of standing together for common defense against the red man and other so considered public enemies, was so great, that all men who were not openly unfriendly were treated with the utmost consideration. As the country became more thickly settled and game became scarcer, sentiment began to crystalize against indiscriminate trespass and hunting of all kinds; but it was not until the beginning of the present generation that this sentiment began to dominate. The first definite move in the direction of curtailing the old common law right ? * lon/lo nf onnthpr <J1 IlUIIllIlft Uli (.lie iuhuo va. uuv%mv, found expression in acts which gave the owner of land the right to prosecute as trespassers people who continued to violate his premises after due warning not to do so, and even these acts have never been enforced except in a few instances in certain localities. The next step in the direction of game protection, in South Carolina, was a law that absolutely prohibited trespass on the lands of another under any pretext whatever, without permission. This law, although generally recognized as sensible and proper, has never been enforced to any considerable extent, for reasons that might be said to be obvious. For instance there are few land owners in this county, during this day of civilized enlightenment, who would desire to prosecute anybody for coming on their lands, provided the quassi trespasser was not up to any harm; but at the same time this law is having un undoubted influence In the protection of game, and in bringing about a closer scrutiny of trespassers generally. Land owners are beginning to take greater interest in their partridges and other game, and are becoming more appreciative of their right to protect the same. In some cases the land owner considers the partridge too valuable from the standpoint jf agricultural economy to allow them to be destroyed, and will not shoot them himself or allow anybody else to shoot them. In other cases, where no especial value is placed upon the partridge as an insect desetroyer, the landowner, realizing that the right to shoot is esteemed by so many as a high privilege, prefers to withhold that privilege from the general public and preserve it only for such special friends and acquaintances as he desires to compliment. With it all, the restrictions around hunting privileges are steadily and surely growing tighter and tighter and within a very few years from now the indiscriminate hunting of the past promises to become a thing unknown. ? Columbia. November L'O: John L. .McLaurin, state warehouse commissioner, has been notified that NewYork banks regarded the state warehouse receipts more valuable than ihncu iuuiieH liv indeoendent storage corporations. The information was carried in a telegram from Wade Stackhouse, M. D., president of the South Carolina division of the cotton congress. The message was sent from Washington, and read: "I showed your warehouse receipts to several business men in New York. The cashier of the National Park bank and others told me they thought your receipt would be much more valuable than local receipts and they thought it would be well worth the extra cost of getting your receipt." At the request of Senator McLaurin. Dr. Stackhouse took the state warehouse act and copies of all the blanks to New York, for the purpose of submitting them to capitalists and others. Dr. Stackhouse has a standard warehouse at Dillon full of cotton, which will entail some expense in unpacking and grading to meet requirements of the state and wished to see if it wou)d pay t<? do this. Warehouses in Pamlico, Columbia. Prosperity and Swansea were incorporated in the system yesterday. Application papers w< re forwarded also to Aiken and Saluda for the forma! admission of warehouses in those towns. ? Three young men of Florence, A. D. Taylor. John 15. Richt< r, Jr.. and R. S. Harrison lost their lives and J. W. Wilson. fourth member of the party, was seriously injured, as the result of tip automobile ride on the outskirts of Florence (Saturday njghr. The partywas returning to Florence when their car struck the railing of a bridge, and was precipitated into the freezing stream ten feet below. The tragedycaused great excitement in Florence. The bodies of tin- dead men were nof recovered unti) Sunday. LOCAL AFFAIR8. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Samuel Hartness?Will pay reward for return of lsot fountain pen. G. M. Carroll, Yorkville So. 1?Requests you to pay him if you owe him on account or otherwise. J. Al. & C. R. McGill, Hickory Grove? Announce a special reduction sale to begin at their store tomorrow. Reduced prices on all goods. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Is showing a new shipment of coat suits and coats and has more goods on the road. C. M. Inman, A. L. and N. S. Black? Warn all persons against trespassing on their lands. Trustees School District No. 17?Give notice of special tax election to be held in said district on December 10, at residence of A. C. White. Thomson Co.?Says that its increasing sales is a sure index to the fact that wise shoppers are finding its prices the lowest and qualities the best. York Drue Store?Has a big line of Lowney's, Hyler's and Nunnally's chocolates and bonbons for the Thanksgiving trade. Lyric Theatre?Gives its programme for four days of this week. Fourth installment of "Trey O' Hearts'* tonight. Kandy Kitchen?Talks about cigars, cigarettes and tobacco. Five cents cigars at $1.75 and $1.85 a box of 50. Chewing tobacco, 55 cts. lb. First National Bank, Sharon?Tells you the first thing necessary to getting a proper start in the world. It wants your savings account. Yorkville Banking & Mer. Co.?Has a fresh supply of cake ingredients, fresh cereals. evaporated fruits, and seasonable vegetables. T. W. Speck?Suggests that you give j your son or daughter a watch for Christmas. He has a good selection of various makes at right prices. The Rock Hill Herald quotes Representative W. J. Cherry as saying that $4,000 is enough to spend on the court house furniture at this time. Representative Cherry is about right on that proposition, except that his figures are rather too high. A party of gentlemen in attendance upon court, were discussing the war in Europe and its bearing upon business conditions in this section. A gentleman from Fort Mill who was in the party and whose business has suffered to some extent on account of the low price of cotton, said; "Well, I'm not worrying, but I'll tell you one thing. According to the papers, the Germans have guns that will shoot twenty miles. I think the statement is wrong. They will shoot 3,000 miles, and already they have knocked business in York county into a cocked hat. Yes, sir, they surely can shoot further than twenty miles." In a letter sent Friday to all postmusters, Postmaster General Burleson told them to arrange at once for "quick and effective distribution or tne largest bulk of Christmas mail handled in the history of the postofflce department." In order that gift-givers will not hold back their presents until the last available mail before Christmas morning, the postmaster general has directed that parcels mailed early may bear the words, "Not to be opened until Christmas." At the large city delivery oglces the carrier force and delivery equipment will be specifically organized for the effective performance of the task which will be imposed upon the service. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Yorkville merchants generally were very well pleased with the amount of business done Saturday. , ? The Yorkville Graded school football team expects to go to Gaffney on Thanksgiving day to play the school football team of that place. , ? The Yorkville Graded school football team defeated the Gaffney team on the local field. Friday. The score was 54 to 0. ? Mr. R. D. Dorsett has opened a restaurant in the Barnett and Williams w..n^inor nnnn?itp the Shleder Drug UUllUllip, Store. ? Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the Associate Reformed church, next Thursday. Rev. Lacy L. Little will preach the sermon of the occasion. ? Manager McManus of the Lyric | theatre on Saturday paid the "war , tax." levied on picture shows by the Federal government. The amount of j the tax was $25. I ? King's Mountain Chapter, D. A. R. ' held a rummage sale in the O'Leary store building, Saturday. The proceeds of the sale amounting to about $32, will be sent to the headquarters of the i Red Crorj. 1 ? Mr. O. T, Wood, representing the National Show Case Co., of Columbus, I Ga? is In Yorkville this week for the j purpose of installing the fixtures for ?* ? * r? 1- TVtr, ' the new First XNauonai mim. * ?>. . work will require a week or ten days, < and upon its completion, the building will be ready for occupancy. ? The Wesley Adult class of Trinity Methodist church, entertained all the members of the quarterly conference of the Yorkville charge at an oyster supper, Friday evening. The supper was held at the home of Mr. R. E. Montgomery, the course being prepared by Mrs. Montgomery, and served by Misses Jessie Baber, Margarite Bradford and Ruth Crosby. DAY OF THANKSGIVING Govtrnor Blease has promulgated his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. It was given out last Friday, and the text of it as follows: It is our duty, and we should regard it as a hi?*h privilege, to set apart one day in each year upon which publicly to give thanks to the Great Source of the many blessings which have been bestowed upon us. During the past twelve months. South Carolina has enjoyed peace and prosperity. A great war raging in Europe and upon the seas has brought financial difficulties to some of our people, but this crisis is being met by South Carolinans as crisises have been met in the past?steadfastly and cour- . ageously, our own people working out their own salvation through the boun- 1 tiful resources with which an all-wise 1 Providence has blessed them. j Our fields have been abundantly , productive; labor and capital have worked in harmony, and each has re- ' reived a just compensation; and moral 1 lipilll <11111 fUUl'ilUUIIUI HUVaill.TIIICMt , have kept step with industrial pro- * Kress. As a people we should he Krateful, ' and we should publicly express our j Kratitude. Now. Therefore, I, Cole. L. Blease, governor of the state of South Carolina, do i ?reby set apart, in accordance with time-honored custom, the fourth Thursday in November, which is the 2Cth of said month as a Day of Thanksgiving, and 1 request that, so far as may be possible, the people of South Carolina cease that day from the duties of their vocations, and publicly acknowledge, in their usual places of worship or in such manner as may seem meet to them, their inde^t< dness to God for his gifts to them COURT HOUSE FURNITURE The county board of commissioners spent last Friday and a good part of Saturday giving consideration to the mafter of furnishing the new court house and especially to the working out of the merits of the various bids that were submitted }n accordance with the plans furnished by Architect IOd wards. The bids for metal furniture, racks and the like were as fpllows: Van " Dorn Iron Works company, $6,200; Art Metal Construction company, $6,999.92; General Fireproofing company, $7,623.47. The bids for opera chairs were as follows: York Furniture company, $600; American Seating company, $637.50; Fielder & Allen company, $600. Bids for wood furniture, including desks, tables and the like: York hurniture company, $1,449.81; ParkcrGurdner Co., $1,258.15; Fielder & Allen Co., $1,030; American Seating company, $1,226.50. Bids for chairs: American Seating company, $998.35; ParkerGardner Co., $983.50; Fielder & Allen Co., $1,113.90; York Furniture Co., $1,500. Electric lighting: A. A. Christie, $1,395.00; and Geo. F. Eubanks, two bids. No. 1, of $1,600, and No. 2, of $1,950. The commissioners, though not agreeing to buy anything decided upon the following bids as most acceptable, , provided the money is made available: For metal furniture: Van Dorn Iron Works company. $6,200. Opera chairs: American Seating company, $637.50. Wood furniture: Fielder & Allen Co., , $1,030. Chairs: York Furniture company, $1,500. No tentative selection was made as to the electric lighting arrangement. The aggregate cost of the selections tentatively agreed upon is $9.367.50.1, This is exclusive of the estimates for a lighting system, which will call for not less than $1,395, in addition. The plan for furnishing the new | building does not take into consideration the probable use of any of the several thousand dollars' worth of furniture that belonged to the old building. ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. X. B. Bratton is critically ill at her home in Yorkville. Rev. L. L. Little of Mangum, X. C., , is visiting relatives in Yorkville. Mr. E. W. Long of Greenville, visited relatives in Yorkville, last week. Miss Gladys James of Yorkville, is visiting relatives in Yadkinville, N. C. < Mr. L. A. McGlll of King's Mountain, i N. C., was a visitor to Yorkville this ( week. Mrs. Church W. Carroll of Yorkville, is visiting relatives in Atlanta, 1 Ga. > Miss Mabel Berry of Yorkville, spent 1 Sundav with Mrs. Chas. A. Berry in Rock Hill. Prof. L. W. Jenkins of Spartanburg, , visited relatives in Yorlcville, this week. Miss Bessie Pcgram of Gastonla, 1 N. C., spent Sunday at her home in i Yorkville. ! Mrs. B. N*. Moore, who has been vis- ( iting relatives in Birmingham, Ala., has returned to her home in Yorkville. Miss Esther Ashe of Yorkville. spent 1 several days this week with her sister, 1 Miss Mabel Ashe, at Rockton, S. C. i Mrs. H. Grady Hardin of Denmark, S. C., is visiting her father. Dr. M. J. , Walker, and other relatives in York- i ville. Rev. Elzie Myers of Yorkville, is < attending the annual Methodist con- ] ference, which convened in Sumter ( today. Mr. C. M. Etheridge of Charlotte, ] N. C., spent Sunday with his daughter, ' Mrs. Tscharner DeGraffenreid, in 1 Yorkville. j Dntm U "D UarHv nf Ulnlrnrv flrnva UCV3. XX. U. AiUlu/ V* *Aivnw? ^ v.?w.w and J. N. Isom of Clover, passed j through Yorkville yesterday, on their way to Sumter to attend the Methodist conference. Mrs. J. W. Quinn returned to her home in Yorkville, Saturday, after a visit to relatives in Greenville. She was accompanied home by her son, Mr. Tom Qulnn, who returned Sunday afternoon. Columbia Record. Sunday: Congressman D. E. Finley of York, representative in congress from the Fifth South Carolina district, spent Saturday In Columbia. He spoke of being "very busy" during the recent session 1 of congress. ] OFF TO CONFERENCE Rev. Henry Stokes, pastor of the \ Yorkville Methodist charge, compris- * ing the Yorkville, Olivet and Philadel- ' phia churches, preached the tlnal scr- i mon of the year's pastorate at Olivet, j Sunday afternoon and left last evening > for Sumter where he goes to attend the ] annual Methodist conference. Mr. Stokes has held the Yorkville j r.Vi? ro-o torn von rn and that Methodism 1 hag progressed very much In his field is evidenced by a comparison of the reports of the three churches for the past ' two years compared with previous reports. About seventy-five members have been received into the three churches during his pastorate. During the past year about $1,600 has been raised by the churches for all purposes, in addition to the splendid contributions of the Sunday schools. Sunday school attendance in the past c two years has increased about 190 per t cent, and an increase of something like a 180 per cent has been noted in the fl- c lancial contributions in Sunday schools. Rev. Mr. Stokes is especially proud of I the work done in the Sunday school at t Yorkville, especially that of three of a the classes?the James Jefferys Wesley Adult class of men, which class is taught by himself: the Camilla Webber Adult class of ladies, conducted by j Mrs. Stokes, and the Library Workers, x class of intermediate boys and girls, which is under the direction of Mrs. J R n Alexander. The latter class, by v its special contributions, have added r ibout thirty or more handsome vol- ^ Limes to the Sunday school library. The whole Sunday school has done much toward the support of missions, s Doth foreign and home. Under the rules of the Methodist conference, no preacher can serve a charge more than four years. That d Rev. Stokes' congregations want him returned next year, and doubtless year a ifter next, is evidenced by the fact that \t the last quarterly meeting of the 1 charge, held in Yorkvllle, last Friday I" evening, at which there was a full at- j :endance, a unanimous request for his v return was submitted. At that meetng Mr. T. W. Jackson was elected a 8 steward of the Olivet church and Mr. A S. Seagle, a trustee of the same con- jj ?regation. If the wishes of the three j congregations of the charge have any . tveight with the conference (and there s no doubt they will have), Mr. Stokes . ,vill be returned for further labors in :his vicinity. He and his family not p inly enjoy the esteem and respect of Methodists in the community; but of he people of every denomination and ' even of those who know no creed. G ON THE SOUTHERN P Business conditions on the Southern y ailway seem to be on the mend; at p * ? I ? kin ntn to pasi sucn IS llie rase ill mis sum., rleavy freight trains are beginning to ^ nove more freely. Last Friday, a y 'reight train started from Spartanburg c 'or Columbia, with more than 60 cars. P IVhen the train reached the Columbia c ,'ards at Roysters, the train included o 102 cars, more than 65 of them loaded, V ind all swung on one engine. Engineer a f. M. Hutchison was the engine driver. Last Friday night there was a rush v ;all for empty cars to move cotton c 'rom Kershaw. An engine was sent T 'rom Rock Hill to Blacksburg and >assed through Yorkville early Saturlay morning with a string of 24 "emp- a ies." The cars were taken to Kershaw, !l vhere they were loaded with X00 bales A >f cotton on Saturday. tc Passenger traffic is also on the mend- w Hore passengers are being handled by he local trains on the Marion and 1> <ingville branch." and similar improyenent is reported from other divisions, d For some time past there has hce.; Cl alk among railroad men that the la Southern management did not expect c( 0 put on the special service between Mackville and Augusta, via Aiken, to ir landle the Pullman cars for those joints from trains Nos. 31 and 32. The w rains from fllackville to Augusta are ?1 lesignated "Tourist" trains, as they are ^ ntended especially to handle the tour- tr st travel into and out of Augusta. By 1 schedule issued last week, the tour- cl st trains were put on as usual, effec- "i ive Sunday; but may not run reguarly unless the traffic demands it, as tr hese trains can he annulled dally h>" -v< '31" train orders. A week or ten days ago there was some talk to the effect that the older engineers who have the preference in "runs,*' were to be asked or requested to lay off one trip a week In order to give some of the younger men, who have been laid off on account of slack business, a chance to earn something. But this move will hardly be necessary, is the opinion now, as the business outlook gets better. Because of the slackness of business during the past few weeks, there are many men, engineers, who have been on regular runs for several years, some of them on passenger trains, who are now firing for older engineers who have the preference in runs. As regular passenger and freight trains are taken off the engineer losing his regular run, has the right of the run next below him, provided he has the necessary service age to entitle him to oust the next man. This has been practiced to such an extent that quite a number of the regular engineers have found it necessary to oust a fireman, in order to keep himself busy, and so it goes until it gets to the place where the younger firemen are simply laid off and kept on the waiting list. HAILSTORM RELIEF FUND After a thorough canvass of the situation, Messrs. J. L. Currence, S. S. C!l?nn and A. C. Harper, the sub-comm ie upon which was imposed the task of distributing the funds contributed in behalf of the York county sufferers from the great hailstorm of July 6, has partially completed its task. The instructions of the sub-committee it will be remembered, were to leave out of consideration all persons who had received aid at the hands of the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce, and try to make the contributions go as far as possible among the people who in all the circumstances appeared to be in most need of help. In the exercise of its discretion, the committee saw proper to leave out of .consideration, all those who were best able to get along on their own resources, and to divide the little pittance among the folks who appeared to be in the greatest need of it. It was decided that in some cases it n'AI.U KA K AOt nil* A.l? 111 WUUIU L/C UCOl IU pUl UUl lite iUUUCJ' 111 cash, while in other cases It was more desirable to make the apportionment In seeds. The cash apportionment amounted to $530, leaving the sum of $223.34 to be invested in seeds to be distributed hereafter. In making the distribution, the committee took into consideration the colared sufferers as well as the whites, and sent out checks as follows: Colored Beneficiaries. Jim Cathy $ 7 50 Amos Bigger 10 00 Sam Woody 7 50 Campbell Dulln 7 50 Russell Beattie 7 50 3reen Phillips 10 00 Jane Hemphill 7 50 Ed Fewell 7 50 Jeorge Tate 7 50 Miller and Nat Smith 7 50 John Stowe 7 50 3reen Bigger 7 50 Mose Johnson 7 50 Bish Kimbrell 7 50 Sam Collins 7 50 Alf Anderson 7 50 John McCallum 7 50 Anthony Barnett 7 50 James Douglass 7 50 Walter Barnett 7 50 William Graham 7 50 Justice Mason 7 50 win i?ienn i av Tim Grier 10 00 Will Stowe 7 50 Vlinerva Lindsay 7 50 Will McKenzie 7 50 Will Tate 7 50 Prank McClain 7 50 White Beneficiaries. D. M. Brandon 15 Oo Mrs. M. J. Stewart 15 00 r. F. Rhyne 10 00 5. A. Pryor 15 00 r. C. Millen 15 00 W. P. Pryor 10 00 T. N. Brandon 15 00 5. D. Meek 10 00 *. F. Meek 15 00 West Davidson 10 00 S'eely Glover 15 00 D. W. Teeter 10 00 William Wallace 10 00 V. C. Bigger 10 00 r. L. Pettus 20 00 A. Brandon 10 00 A. Meek 10 00 rohn S. Meek 10 00 r. L. Huffman 10 00 r. J. Nevins, Jr 10 00 1. W. Klmbrell 10 00 5. B. Kimbrell 10 00 rohn Ward 10 00 -- Ah Jeorge hhi is ?? dary Barnett 15 00 GENERAL SESSIONS Court of general sessions for York lounty for the fall term convened In he temporary court room in Yorkvllle, .t 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Spelal Judge C. M. Eflrd of Lexington, residing, and all the court officials at heir accustomed stations. The docket ippeared to be about as heavy as usu.1 for the fall term. Judge Efird's charge to the grand ury was confined to the general duties levolving on that body. Several petit urors were reported "not found." For arious causes the following petit Juors were excused: C. D. Cunninglam, C. M. Inman, A. R. Cook, R. A. ,'ounts, C. H. Ferguson, S. A. Robinon. Yesterday morning the grand jury eturned true bills on the following inllctments: Charles Garrison, house-breaking nd larceny; Bub Hardin. Giles Paterson, Ed Patterson, riot; Otis Mc'adden, housebreaking and larceny; oshua Buyers, assault and battery k'ith intent to kill; Walker Moore, asault and battery with intent to kill; irthur Gadsden, Peter Hinton, using ive stock without consent of owner, ane Grady, violation of dispensary iw; Thomas M. E. McCarter, violation f dispensary law; Steve Davis, murer. Bub Hardin, Giles Patterson and Ed 'atterson plead guilty to the charge of iot. Thirty days at hard labor or a ne of $25 in each case, was the senence of the court. Charles Garrison. James Ingram and (eorge McGatta, three white men, lead guilty to house breaking and irceny, and were sentenced to three ears each in the penitentiary or the ublic works of the county. Otis McFadden plead guilty to house reaking and larceny. The sentence f the court was that he serve two ears on the public works of York ounty or a like period in the state j enitentiary. Peter Hinton and Arthur Gadsden. I harged with using stock without the wner's consent, demanded a trial. | ^hen it developed there was no case , gainst them the solicitor consented to , verdict of not guilty. j Walker Moore plead guilty to aggra- ] ated assault and battery, he having j ut his wife in the arm while drunk. < hree months on the public works or a i ne of $50 was imposed. 1 The next ca-e taken up was that i gainst Joshua Byers, charged with | ssault and battery with intent to kill. ] verdict of guilty of assault and bat- , >ry of a high and aggravated nature j as returned and the defendant was \ mtepced to serve two months in the j enitentiary or to pay a fine of $50. J. M. Plexico, plead guilty to cop^- ' ucting a (\rug business wjthout a 11uise. a mere technical violation of the i .w. Solicitor Henry stated. Mr. Plexi- < j paid a fine of $10. 1 The grapd Jury returned the follow- i ig true hills yesterday afternoon: ? O. M. Turney, assault and battery > ith intent to kill; Peter Karros, man* 1 aughter; Hepry White and Walker 3 r'hite, assault and battery with Intent t > kill. ( Three cases against V. H. Bradford. 1 larging disposal of property under 1 en, were nol pressed by the solicitor. t There being no m?re cases ready for 1 ia|, coprt adjourned at four o'clock f ?sterday afterpoop. r The grand jury returned the follow- I Ing true bills to the court this morning: William Johnson, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons: James McGill, i' posing of property under lien; Curry Burris, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons; John Cameron, manslaughter; Arthur Black, violation of the dispensary law; David Reed, violation of dispensary law; Henry Beaty and Venie Rippy, adultery and fornication; Tom Morrison, using stock without owner's consent; A1 Williams, assault and battery with Intent to kill; Henry Brown and Jno. Perkins, assault and battery intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons; Walter Woodward, housebreaking and larceny; Beatie Wright, assault and battery with Intent to kill; Samuel Williams, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed a'PQ nrtnu Tnhn Wh Itonnr vinlatlnn f\t dispensary law; J. E. Turney, assault and battery intent to kill. David Reed was found not guilty of violating the dispensary law. Henry White who was found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, has not yet been sentenced. Tom Morrison plead guilty to the charge within the indictment against him. He will serve thirty days on the public works. Walter Woodward plead guilty to larceny. The court sentenced him to six months on the public works. John Whitener plead guilty to selling liquor. A sentence of three months or $100 was imposed. Arthur Black entered a plea of guilty of violation of the dispensary law. He drew a sentence of three months or $100 fine. The case against Geo. Hope Davis, the charge being housebreaking and larceny, was nol prossed. Court is now engaged In the trial of Peter Karros, the Greek restauranteur of Rock Hill, charged with manslaughter. YORK COUNTY TEACHERS Following ia a list of the teachers in the public schools of York county. Many of these teachers were employed in the several schools during the summer terms and others are just now beginning their first work in York county: Oak Ridge?Julia Plexlco, Florence Steel. R. Hill. Bethany?W. R. Coon, Willie May Grayson, Lena Howell. Hero?Maggie Bell McCarter, Ava Green. Fairview?Frank Grayson. Bethel?R. B. Riddle, Jr. Glendale?Margaret Faulkner. Massey?Flossie Davis. Roddey?Marion Patton. Lowry Wilson?Lillian Agnew. India Hook?Robert Harris, Alice Garrison. Ancona?Mrs. Maud Lee. Gold Hill?Myrtle Falls. Wllkerson?Ola Wilkerson, Eula Wilkerson. Shady Grove?Mrs. Joe Plexico. McConnellsvllle?J. F. Hay, lone Ashe. Ogden?Luella Foster, Iola Childers. Bullock's Creek?C. B. Guess, Anna Cherry Schorb. uuve?n. j\. xsraKeneiu. Piedmont?Ruth Whitesides. Broad River?Clarence Castles. Beersheba?Andral Barry. Sharon?M. L. Smith, Wllma Logan, Isabel Arrowood. Filbert?Lizzie Wood, Annie Jackson, Pearl Knox. Bowling Green?Bessie Gettys, Jennie Currence. Pine Bark?R. C. Allen. Laney?J. H. Whisonant, Mary W. Brown. Oak Ridge?Howard Patrick. Dixie?Eunice Plexico. Riverside?E. P. Steele, Jr. Concord?Mary E. Gettys. Bethesda?Cornelia Barton, Ella May Courtney. Forest Hill?Mary Harshaw. Allison Creek?Ellie Feemster. Fodder?Mattie L. Kirby. * Ebenezer?Ruth W. Stokes. Philadelphia?May Russell, Marie Wood. Pine Bluff?Lillian Klrkpatrick. Tirzah?R. S. Moore, Gertrude Hlers, Mary Lesslle. Newport?Mary C. Byers, Miss Hays. Clover?W. S. Shealy, Mabel Flanagan, Annie Lee Neil, Cammie Roddey, Elizabeth Wilson, Anna Lewis. Hopewell?Mrs. J. C. McFadden, Ella Ritch. Gold Hill?F. W. Dickson, Lesslie Epps. Hickory Grove?R. Hi Holiday, Lucile Rabb, Guy Nell Phillips, Emily Wylie. Santiago?Roy Grayson. 1-4(11 Let rvuuucy I_A;vo. Eastview?Maud Williams. Smyrna?Bessie Faris, Bertha Barton. Friendship?Josephine Byrom, Ruth Thomas. Catawba?B. D. Refo, Lillian Cook. Sutton Spring?Ruth Ferguson. Miller?Aggidel Moore. Cotton EJelt?Kittie Blair, Sallie Atkinson, Lela Stephenson. Mount Holly?J. W. Drake, Sallie Wilkes, Lois Burley. Guthriesville?Annie M. Miller, Mary Clark. Lesslle?O. C. Klbler, Llllie Martin, , Mary Simpson. Union?Louise Dobson. Liberty?Bessie Adams. New Zion?Annie Bolin. Blairsville?Clyde Ratchford, Mrs. ! S. A. Mitchell. Cedar Grove?Ola Scoggins. Fort Mill?J. P. Coats. Bessie Brown, Gwinneth Bratton, Mattie Culley. Er- ' mine Brunson. Isabel Grler, Kathleen Jeter, Susie White, Minnie Garrison, i Blanch Lawrence. 1 Yorkville?B. C. Riddle, C. B. Mc- ' Kelvey, Margaret Marion. Ella Neely, i Frederica Lindsay, Maud Eberhardt, I Sudie Allison, Mary Cartright. Marilla < Ewart. Geraldlne Lowry, Nora Wil- < liamson. ' Mountain View?Maggie Whitesldes. < Clark^s Fork?Ida Whitesldes. Free Sliver?Minnie rainier. Fodder?Mattie Klrby. Rock Hill?R. C. Burts, E. W. Hall, A. M. Paul. Lottie Barron. Bessie Poag, | Katherlne Connor, Claude Godfrey. Roberta Wardlaw, Belle Norris, Lucile Sales, Eunice Chaplin, Lucy Fry, Annie Claire Hutchinson. Alma Bowman, , Jeannette Roddey. Mary Roach, Mary j Thomson. Mary Grey Sandifer. Mattie ( White. Lillian Hand, Flora White, Mary c Love, Lillian Caveny, Margaret Biggars, Mary Johnston, Josle Hall, Ina ( Oleson. ] m 1 LOCAL LACONICS J York Boys at Wofford. York county boys who are students | at Wofford college, organized a Wofford York County club last Thursday, t There are five York boys attending Wofford Fitting school, and ten In the * college. This la York's largest quota ' at the Methodist Institution In several 1 years. Following are the officers and e members of the York county club: f President, W. C. Reld; vice president, J. H. Hood: secretary, W. C. Holroyd; [ treasurer, 8. W. Barber; T. F. Reld, 1 R n Hood. E. D. Whlsonant, H. W. * Sanders, J. O. Castles, John S. Wal-11 lace. ^ F. B. Culp Accidentally Killed. f P. B. Culp, a prominent farmer living c near Rowells, Chester county, just e across the York county line, was in- 1 stantly killed Saturday afternoon, when e i pistol which he was handing to Miss e Bell Poster housekeeper for his father t ind himself, was in some manner discharged. It seems that Mr. Culp had t been cleaning the weapon and didn't S <now it was loaded. The deceased was well known in the eastern section o' t :he county. Miss Poster has relatives 5 iving near McConnellsvile. and in oth- u cr sections of the county. A coroner's J lury returned a verdict to the effect E :hat the killing was purely accidental. P Mr. Culp was about 3f> years of age. c Death of Miss Anne Starr. e After an illness extending over a pe- h lod of several weeks, Miss Anne Starr q lied at the home of her nephew, Mr. n IV. H. Moore in Rock Hill Thursday tl light, aged 74 years. Miss Starr was s i daughter of the late John Starr, and ,vas born In the Bethesda section of " fork county, where she lived many u rear*. For several years past she had h pade her home in Rock Hill. The de- F 'eased is survived by two brothers, n Messrs. John Starr of Yorkville and e William Btarr of Rock Hill. The fun- w ral and Interment waa at Bethesda v "rtday morning, the services being h onducted by Rev. W. F. Gregg, pastor si if the First Presbyterian church of b lock Hill. n Case Against Legislator Closed. Solicitor Henry yesterday agreed to nol pros the case against N. C. Creech, charged with drawing a check without funds. upon Creech's paying the f amount of the check. Creech who was ,* a member of the legislature from Barnwell in the last general assembly, was formerly employed in Rock Hill, and is alleged to have issued the check in question on a Rock Hill bank. It will be remembered that he was arrested by Magistrate Fowles in Columbia, during the last regular session of the \ legislature on a similar charge. He was defeated for re-nomination as a member of the Barnwell delegation in the house in the Democratic primary last August. York's First State Warehouse. The Hill Banking and Mercantile company of Sharon, has made application to State Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin, to have its big warehouse with 3,500 bales capacity taken under the state system. This is the first application from York county. The warehouse has been accepted, and unless prevented by unforeseen contingencies, Mr. McLaurin expects to come up to Sharon tomorrow to complete the formalities of the transfer. The state undertakes to guarantee abso luteiy the title or cotton in state warehouses, and under the law the clerk of w the court, upon application is required to give a certificate showing whether or not there is any subsisting lien on such cotton as may be offered. There ^ can be no charge for this certificate. Will Inspect York County Schools. Prof. W. H. IJand. state high school inspector, proposes to come to York county next Monday for the purpose of inspecting the Clover. Bethany. Sharon and Hickory Grove High schools. The inspector will be accompanied on his round by County Superintendent <t Education John E. Carroll. The school . authorities expect to be at Clover, * Monday. Bethany. Tuesday, Sharon, Wednesday, and Hickory Grove. Thursday. The high school inspector is desirous of having a patron's meeting at the scene of each day's inspection, as he proposes to also make addreses * along the line of school Improvement. The visit next week will be Prof. Hand's first to these York county schools in several months. Former York Woman Dead. Mrs. Margaret Harris Thomas, wife of Mr. O. E. Thomas, a well known druggist of Columbia, died at her home in that city early Sunday morning, and was buried In Columbia, yesterday af- w ternoon. Mrs. Thomas was before her marriage, Miss Margaret Harris, and was born in Bethesda township, York county, a little more than 52 years ago. She was a daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. John S. Harris. The deceased is survived bv her husband, one daueh- II ter. Miss Agnes Thomas, of Columbia, and two sons, H. B. Thomas, Columbia, and O. E. Thomas, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal. Three sisters, Mrs. Corlnne Gray of Danville. Va.. and Mesdames J. E. Lowry and F. E. Sims of Columbia, also survive. Grain Campaign Held Up. / The whirlwind grain campaign party, composed of Commissioner E. J. Watson. Prof. A. G. Smith, Prof. Barton and other experts, has decided to abandon their tour of the state for a few days, owing to the cold weather, It is said. Up to Saturday night, the 4 party had passed through thirteen counties, and according to the original programme expected to hold a meeting at Gaffney yesterday morning, and from there proceed to Clover, Yorkville and Rock Hill. According to an interview given out by Commissioner 6 Watson yesterday, farmers at places they have thus far visited are not attending the meetings in as large numbers as had been hoped for. The commissioner says there Is no doubt but that the acreage to be devoted to the sowing of grain throughout the state this year, is much larger than it has ever been before, although It Is nothing like It should be. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? The dispensary at Swansea was broken into and robbed Saturday night. About twenty gallons of liquor were stolen. jf ? Laurens county officers raided a big distillery In that county Friday. The raid Is said to have been the first made In Laurens In many years. ? John Campbell, a prominent Laocaster county farmer was shot and mortally wounded by Bayes Still, also a farmer of Lancaster, last Friday. The cause of the shooting is not known. ? The association of college presidents I met In Columbia, Saturday, the meet- ' ing being the first held in some time. The nine male colleges of the state were represented, as was also Wlrchrop college. ? According to the annual report of Miss Jo Anna Yarborough, Chester county agent of the Girls' Canning club work, 58 Chester county canning club girls raised 105,204 pounds of tomatoes during the year Just closed. ? Capt. J. S. Caldwell will succeed Col. O. W. Babb as assistant adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina, the change to take effect Jan. ). Col. J. E. Cogswell has sent In his resignation as commanding officer of the Third regiment, N. G. S. C. ? Capt. W. A. Burnham, one of the J|r oldest conductors In the service of th."> ~ Southern railway, running between Branchville and Augusta, dropped dead on his train at Denmark, yesterday morning. He was about 50 year# of age. ? A. P. Cudd, a prominent livery- * man of Spartanburg, was probably fa- w fflllv InliiPhH hv Tom Pri t r?V> n nnn nf Cudd's tenants, Friday. The trouble irose when Cudd had the sheriff attach thirteen bales of cotton, the property sf Pritchard. The latter, it is said, became enraged and struck Cudd over the head with a monkey wrench several times. Pritchard surrendered. THE WAR IN EUROPE. News Paragraphs Telling of Happen* ings at the Front. A London dispatch of Sunday, says :hat two sons of General Christian Dewet, the rebel leader, have surrenlered to a magistrate at Cape Town, 4| South Africa. Freezing weather has set in through>ut the battle zone in France and Belgium. The temperature, Saturday, varied between 25 and 28 degrees ibove zero. Snow is falling in northern France. In Socialist quarters in Copenlagen, which are in touch with the Socialists of Berlin, it is said that ",000,000 men are engaged in the batle on the Russian-German frontiers. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria., las awarded the grand cross of the <ur- m ler of Elizabeth, to Mrs. Frederick C, 3enfleld, wife of the United States: imbassador to Vienna, on account of' ler care for wounded soldiers. A Warsaw dispatch says the Gernan generals von Berdow and von trommel committed suicide at Caenitochowa, Russian Poland, last week, i ollowing their defeat. A Rome dispatch says that the Austrian fortress of Przemysl has ofered to capitulate to the Russians on ondition that the garrison be permittd to leave with arms and baggage, rhe dispatch says the offer was refus d as the Russian commander consldred that the fortress would be unable o hold out for long. The Germans offered 50,000 marks or the capture of King Albert of Bel ium, and a traitorous chauffeur neary collected It, according to a story old by Etlenne Gouraud of Trenton. Itch., who arrived in New York, Satrday. on the Anchor liner Carolina. Ir. Gouraud says he served In the ielgian army as a member of the ersonal bodyguard of King Albert or a time. King Albert, Gouraud delares. discovered the treachery of the hauffeur and put a revolver to his ea^j, forcing him to return to headuarters. Here a check for 50 000 larks on a Berlin bank was found in be chaufTeur's pocket. The man was hot within half an hour. V A Petrograd correspondent says: Emperor William is staking his all pon the great battle in Poland. He as brought the finest troops from "ranee, borrowed the best cavalry, amely, the Hungarian Horse, depletd his garrisons by moving their gws # 'herever possible and now strikes- for ictory or death. Having based ?!t, his opes on crushing France, he now is; imilarly turning on Russia, and this attle must decide the fate of Ger-lany's whole adventure."