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Scraps anil Jacts. J ? London, Ontario, April 20: Six- a teen Irate women of Resaca, Madison ^ county, beat George H. Ward, a pros- r perous farmer until he was badly bat- ^ tered and bruised and was removed to * his home In a critical condition. Owing to Ward's alleged cruelty to his wife, c she had been removed to a neighbor's a house by friends, where she died of c consumption. Ward allowed no re- s liglous exercises over the body, it is c said, and when returning from the '' funeral In a solitary buggy he was at- 8 tacked by a number of women of the e community armed with whips, who 1 beat him until the whips were splln- v tered. In a suit for divorce Mrs. Ward f I had charged her husband with driving * her from the bed while suffering from r consumption and compelling her to ' water the stock. * ^ ? Charlotte Chronicle: Governor " Glenn was given a reception by the Xorth Carolina society in Baltimore Thursday, and later delivered a lecture on temperance, in the course of ~ w hich he declared that he would rather go back to the farm on Dan river, live in seclusion and die in oblivion than to occupy the highest office in ! the gift of the people if it depended j on ceasing the fight against intemper- j ance. Speaking of prohibition condi- < tions in Xorth Carolina, he said: "Local option is in force in seventy out of ninety-seven counties, and in several of the western counties the dispensary system prevails. The main trouble is that whisky is shipped in from other states by hundreds of barrels. But we are going to put a stop to that in pretty short order." The clubs are MKt'jy lO priCK up ineir ears tti mc mi- y formation contained in the closing e sentence. It would be interesting to d know the plans of the governor to t stop the leak. Js ? A bill which is designated the d "Patents and Designs" bill, Introduced tj in the British house of commons and j passed unanimously to its second g reading, is aimed directly at American ^ machinery manufacturers and is in- j, tended to put a stop to a large part of the importations of American made machinery intp England. It has been p the custom of American inventors to r have their inventions patented in Eng- v land as well as in the United States, a then have their machines or whaover e their invention might be, made in this q country and exported to England. The s patents and designs bill provides that f( after three years a patent may be q revoked on a petition showing that the ? manufacture of the article is carried c on mainly outside of England, unless c the patentee gives most "satisfactory j, reasons" as to why th^ article is not c manufactured on British soil. Al- ? most every kind of American machin- v ery is sold and protected in England i under patents of that country. U ? Scientists whose attention has t been directed to the rapid succession s of earthquakes in Mexico, Spain, Eas- g tern South America, and even in Char- c leston, says a New York dispatch, ex- g plain that the earth is undergoing a v period of unusual instability. One set v of scientists believe that a universal disaster is imminent, while the oth- p er group fears no such calamity, f( although agreeing that future slight ^ seismic disturbances are possible. n Dr. John M. Clark, state geolo- b gist, says the entire Atlantic coast is c by no means safe, although he admits jj that the shocks generally follow the 0 mountain ranges of the Pacific. Rec- j] ords show that since December third, n there have been twenty-six earth- j quakes, added to these disasters and tl in the same period several hurricanes have occurred. A typhoon on Good Friday swept over the Caroline islands killing 230 out of the 8,000 inhabi- r tants. The Gulf of Mexico recently was turned into a "boiling pot." During the j Mexican earthquake the steamer La Provence, which arrived from Europe t to-day, encountered a weird electrical t hurricane attributed to seismic disturbances. t ? Mrs. Donald McLean was last week p re-elected president general of the Daughters of the American revolution. The other officers are as follows: Vice ' j 1 I Vf presiueni tin a gruciai vi(auu<ri, ? >.. Charlotte Emerson, Maine; vice pres-1 idents general, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, I j Alabama; Mrs. H. S. Chamberlain, c Tennessee; Mrs. Alexander E. Patton, s Pennsylvania; Mrs. Charles H. Deere. , Illinois; Mrs. A. E. Kendall, Maine; ^ ? Mrs. Charles H. Terry, New York; Mrs. Wallace Delafield, Missouri; Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, North Carolina; Mrs. B. D. Spilman, West Virginia; Mrs. Eleanor Spencer Massey. District of Columbia; chaplain general, Mrs. F Esther F. Noble, District of Columbia; ? recording secretary general, Miss Elizabeth F. Pierce, District of Columbia; corresponding secretary general, Mrs. John Paul Ernest, District of Columc bia; registrar general, Mrs. Amos G. Draper, District of Columbia; treasurer general, Mrs. Mabel G. Swormstedt, F District of Columbia; historian gen- s eral. Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby, District of Columbia; assistant historian gen- r eral. Mrs. Henry S. Bowen, New York; c librarian general, Mrs. Helen M. Boyn- ? ton. District of Columbia. ? Thos. M. Huntington and Fred e - - . . n Hoyt, bankers of Gordon, ,\eo? ana A mart Todd of Denver, Col., have been F convicted In the Federal court at 1 Omaha. Neb., on charges of consplr- ' acy to defraud the government of n about a half million acres of public lands. The fight against the "land p grabbers" has been going on in the 0 several western states for several 0 months past and has resulted in a 1 large number of convictions. The '' scheme of the "land grabbers" is a 1 simple one and has been worked very '' successfully for years. It is worked ^ like this: A company is formed with a ample capital to finance the steal. " Then homesteaders are sought to file tj claims on homesteads on government a lands, ex-soldiers being especially de- " sirable for this purpose, as there are l' special concessions made to soldiers. After the homesteads have been occupied the required time to get a good a title from the government, the homesteader would sell his lands to the a promoting company at a nominal price, previously agreed upon. As the practice is an illegal one the government has been using all possible means to break it up and is meeting ? with considerable success wherever ' land grabbing cases have been brought to trial. ? Arthur Stringer, the novelist, who {j has just returned to New York after tl a two months' visit in Central America d brings the news that Joseph Gordon, * the Jamaican half caste outlaw who ,j won for himself in the tropics a repu- b tation equal to that of Tracey in the j.' United States, and who for some jj months had been terrorizing Costa Rica, was captured and killed on b March 30. "I was knocking about the fl eastern coast of Costa Rica," said Mr. Stringer, "when the man Gordon was p rylng to shoot up the republic. In act I was one of a party of eight rhlch left Limon with a yard engine nd an observation car In search of lim, after Gordon had shot down two allway employees and telephoned his Iramatic challenge to Mr! Mullens, he general manager of the railway. On the same morning that our speial went up into his stamping ground i hand car came down from the hills arrylng three bodies, those of three oldiers shot by Gordon. The hand ar had to be lifted off the rails to et us pass. It was a grewsome enough ight and things began to look intersting as we got farther up the counry. Half an hour later, however we rere told that Gordon had been snot rom ambush by one of the Costa tlcan regulars. He was taken to Linon, wounded by a shot through the ungs. He died on Easter Sunday of lis wounds." $hr \torluillr (Bnquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.t TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 1907. We desire to call especial attention t) the article published In another colmn from the Columbia correspondnce of the Charlotte Observer. It iscusses the pending test of the conract labor laws of this state, and the ssue Involved is of more than orinary interest to a majority of he farmers of the state. Should udge Brawley decide against the contltutlonality of this law, farmers who ave contracts under it will do well a go slow about enforcing the same. Discitssi.no the political situation in Lichland county, the Columbia corespondent of the Charlotte Obserer mentions several probable reasons s to the present movement for an lection on the removal of the Carey,'othran 'dispensaries; but the most triklng of them perhaps, is to be jund in the statement that with the 'arey-Cothran law, those who have ontrolled the voting strength of the ounty are unable to reach the pie ounter. This is very likely the milk 1 the coccanut, just as it was in the ase of the original law?the pie ounter. The people who control the otes are after the loaves and fishes, 'hat is natural probably and there is ttle hope that there will ever be anyhing else to it. And Just as the tate dispensary was a menace to ;ood government; so also will the ounty dispensaries be a .menace to ood government. In those counties . here dispensaries are located there . ill be a constant fight for the conrol of their operation, and all other olltical interests will necessarily sufer in consequence. It seems to us hat the state of South Carolina has ow had enough experience in this usiness to justify everybody in the oncluslon that the conduct of the Iquor trade is not a proper province >f government; that if the liquor busness cannot be prohibited then the iext best thing is to permit its conuct under the strictest supervision of he law. To Ditch the Creeks. With little or nothing done on the oad question, with education still lag1ng, and the people not yet settled it their convictions as to the best way f disposing of the liquor problem, here is very little encouragement to ake up the drainage question at this Ime; but still it is hardly to be denied hat this is a matter of very great imortance. In various parts of York couny there are many thousands of cres of otherwise valuable lands that re of no practical use, solely for lack f proper drainage. Most of the creeks n this locality are still following the hannels they broke out for themelves originally, and since the forests lave been cut away, those creeks have >een making additional encroachnents on the country through which hey pass. The value of proper drainage by neans of ditches and otherwise is a roposltion that is very well undertood by most land owners. There are ew farmers in all this section who lave not had the experience of very naterially improving conditions by leepening and straightening out the hannels of rills and brooks, and some lave made heavy but Intelligent exlenditures on creek beds at very coniderable profit to themselves. But most creek propositions present roblems that are beyond the reach f private enterprise. In the majority if such cases there afe quite a numier of different land owners at interst, and even though the different iwners may ue auie, n suiiicuiucb hastens that some are not willing, and he matter, then becomes a fit subject or some equitable statutory arrangenent that will facilitate the work.* In some states there are laws which irovide that where a given number f property holders along the course f a creek that can be improved by arificial means, petition for such imirovement, the county authorities ake hold of the matter, issue bonds n the required amount, have the work one by contract, hold the bonds gainst the lands improved as securty, assess each land owner in proporion to the benefit received, and allow long period of years for the paylent of the amount in the shape of axes. Where such a statute has been tried l has been found to work admirably, nd real estate values have been very mch enhanced by this means. The pplicatlon of such an arrangement in rork county, would be of immense enefit, and we are quite sure that here are not a few land owners who rould be glad to see the enactment f the statutory provisions necessary o put it into effect. Nkxt Democratic Platform.?The )emocratic national platform of 1908, ' Wm. J. Bryan controls the convenion, says an Omaha dispatch, will not emand. absolute government owner hip of railroads. This was authoriatively announced by Jas. C. Dahllan national comitteenian from Xeraska. The statement is in the naure of an official announcement as )ahlman is in close touch with Mr. tryan. it is stated that tariff reform will ecnme the dominant feature of the latform. Dahlman says that the rominent planks will concern trusts, tie tariff, state regulations and money elief. The railroad ownership plank being conspicuous by its absence. The acceptance of campaign contributions from the trusts and large corporations will receive severe condemnation. The usurpation of power by the president will be made a strong point and the convention will be asked to declare that President Roosevelt in the matter of acceptance or approval of campaign contributions has overstepped true Democratic principles. A halt will be demanded in naval extension and the development of river navigation endorsed. No overtures are to be made to the Populists beyond an invitation to join the party. The election of senators by a direct vote, the reformation of the civil service rules and a strong foreign policy will be proclaimed and pledged. CONTRACT LABOR LAW. Probability That Judge Brawley May Knock It Out. There Is a feeling- among those who heard the arguments in the case before Judge Brawley in the Federal court at Charleston recently when the contract labor law act was attacked in the interest of two negroes on the ground that it was a form of peonage. that the state will lose in the case, says the Columbia correspondent of the Charlotte Observes. And if this act is declared unconstitutional, it is predicted that the new act passed by the legislature this year making failure on the part of a farm tenant to carry out a lease contract punishable on the criminal side of the court, will be even more easily knocked out. If both of these acts are thus rendered inoperative there will be practically nothing left for the South Carolina lien law to rest upon, and the annual fight which has been waged against it in the legislature for the past thirty years will in all probability succeed next February. If the lien law, which is sustained each year by a narrow majority, goes, farming methods will have to go through a revolution throughout the state. This new act as to tenants, in the opinion of good lawyers, has the effect of making a tenant a part of the realty, transferable along with the lease from one owner to another during the life of the lease, which may run many years, like a stump, a rock or a tree, creating a sort of surfdom as under the English law "In days of old when knights were bold and barons held their sway." Attorney Gen ? i t fnr fho nnnatl. erai i>v un, nnu aigu^u iui ?.v tutionallty of the act attacked in Charleston, has not yet rendered an opinion on the new act, but those who have applied to his office for information have been advised to consult their attorneys before attempting to enforce its provisions on the criminal side of the court. The new act was declared to deal not only with negroes but with others who "jump" farm leases to go to the railroads or to the mills after being advanced supplies. A serious present aspect of the situation has to do with the predicament the farmers will find themselves in with the crops just coming on for cultivation, with no big stick to hold over the heads of the irresponsible negro farm hands, who are growing more unreliable and untrustworthy each year. With these two laws knocked out there will be no way of holding that large class of negro laborers who are already deeply in debt to landowners for supplies, nor any means compelling that other large class who have rented lands and are in debt to merchants for supplies with the coming crop as collateral. Of course if the cases are appealed, which will in all probability be done, the final decision will be a. long way off, but this will help matters very little, in view of the uncertainty of the law being finally sustained and by reason of the fact that habeas corpus proceedings will be open to any one against whom attempt is made to enforce the law. There are many others, however, ? *?? i'" ? nVioorfiii vIaw nf the mat ter. who hope that both laws will be declared unconstitutional, In order that the ruinous credit system which has been impoverishing: the farming interests for the past half century, exhorbitant prices to time merchants, will be for ever broken down. Those who look for this correction of disastrously unbusinesslike methods also think that the negroes can be better handled by being forced to work by the day for cash under competent white overseers. They think that lands will be steadily and promptly improved, will become more productive and will enhance in value as well as in price?that those railroad travelers who are saddened by the views from car windows of long stretches of barren hillsides streaked with ghostly gullies will have new and beautiful scenes to look upon. South's Fibst Cotton Mill.? Apropos of the coming national meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association, which will be held in this city next May, it is interesting to note that the man who constructed the first cotton mill in the south was a Philadelphian. Though born in Lancaster county, he spent a good part of his life in this city, in the tailoring business. It is appropriate, therefore that the Manufacturers' association should select .this city as its meeting place. Michael Schpnck Is the pioneer manufacturer who started in Dixie an industry that today represents an investment of about $650,000,000. He was horn in Lancaster, February 15, 1771, having been descended from a Swiss Mennonite family which emigrated to this country in the latter part of the 17th century, after making an agreement with William Penn for the purchase of land in Lancaster county. He came to this city early in life and entered the tailoring business. In which he spent several years. His health failed him. and he went to Lincolnton, N. C.. with his two brothers. Schenck built a factory one and one-half miles east of the city, in which he put seventy-two spindles, which he operated by water-power. His goods were all purchased In this eitv and Lancaster, and were brought to Lincolnton in wagons. Schenck's little factory, which began in August, 1815, proved so profitable that four years later he installed in it 3,000 additional spindles. Out of it has grown the great factories that are now turning out millions of dollars' worth of the fleecy staple and shipping it to every part of the civilized world.? Philadelphia Press. ? New York Commercial: William Randolph Hearst celebrated the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthday by calling for the organization of a third great national party which shall go before the country as the advocate of "honest measures, honest methods and honest men." In Mr. Hearst's opinion the Independence League will fill the bill. His announcement of the broadening of the League from a state to a national organization which was made at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Savoy by the League's county committee, amounted practically to serving notice by Mr. Hearst that he would be in the running for the presidential nomination in 1908. It was the most definite declaration on that subject that he has made since his defeat in the New York state campaign. "From Massachusetts to California, Independence clubs are being formed and the Indenend <?nce League principles are being advocated," said Mr. Hearst. Prbsbytkrian Church History.? It will be a matter of interest to the Presbyterians of the city to know that Rev. D. I. Craig is writing a history of the Synodical Movement in North Carolina, he being assisted in raising funds for publishing the book by Rev. Wm. Black and Rev. E. E. Gillespie, the former of Davidson and the latter of Yorkville. The forthcoming history will deal with the home mission work of the synod and the church in this state, with photographs, educational history, and other matters of Interest to those who keep up with the development and progress of the work. Rev. Mr. Craig, who is stated clerk of the North Carolina synod, gave a brief history before the synod some time ago. along the line of the book that he is now preparing, and that paper was so well received, that the author has undertaken to treat the subject at greater length and in more detailed style.?Charlotte Chronicle. LOCAL AFFAIRS. d NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. o M. W. White?Says that If you never make investments you are not likely <; to accumulate much of this world's r goods. York Drug Store?Now has many of the new May magazines, which pre- r sent many kinds of reading matter, j Album of Clansman illustrations. . James Kennedy, No. 3?Wants the owner of a yearling heifer calf to call for his property. / First National Bank?Reminds you r that the young folks are the future business men and women and ad- a vises that they be trained In busi- o ness principles. r York Supply Co.?Has full supply of various kinds of fertilizers, clay and speckled peas, cane seed, etc. See the Planet Jr. cultivators?the best on the market. J. Q. Wray, the Leader?Is showing a * new line of men's pants at 50c to 35 f a pair. Best line of white good in g lown at KOCK JDonoin prices. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Has just received large stock of keen kutter v tools for carpenters, including draw ( knives, planes, saws, etc. * Thomson Co.?Has limited supply of long silk gloves at $1.25 a pair. These gloves are hard to get and they advise early buying. Ladies' r collars, belts, etc. * I. W. Johnson?Has various kinds of c good chewing and smoking tobac- t cos as well as choice line of cigars. |; It is pretty generally conceded that t the three military companies in York I county are among the best in the 1 state. And it Is a fact also, that this 3 position has been reached mainly r through the efforts of the officers and men. The outside public has not tak- e en a great deal of interest in the mil- a itary. There has been a disposition to j look upon the military as a kind of a j holiday affair. There was a time t when this view was more or less warranted; but now it is different. Un- 0 der existing laws and conditions, if t an emergency should arise, and such I an emergency may arise at any time, t the militia may be called upon to per- c form serious service. In having such efficient organizations, the people of I the county generally, and especially t of the towns in which the different e companies make their headquarters, r ure to be congratulated. And by the j way, would it not be a nice thing on | 1 ho nart of these towns to volunteer e some help in the shape of subscrip- a tions to help the local companies go t to Jamestown? We are inclined to t the opinion that the military boys would appreciate such a movement, c and we think also that they would g have a right to look upon it as nothing t more than their due. f I THE FRUIT SITUATION. j There is still difference of opinion I as to whether all the fruit has been C killed; but from such information as ( has been obtainable there is no rea- I son to expect much along this line. I Mr. C. C. Hughes said yesterday that he had examined numerous peaches c and apples, and while he had found c some that were still clinging to the t limbs, those that he cut open were t black inside, and he got no encour- t agement to believe that any would f survive. ij There has been more or less specu- c latlon as to the blackberry outlook, t some people asserting that the buds \ have been killed; but Mr. Hughes is i quite sure that this is not the case, fc He has examined quite a number of d swelling buds and found them all alive t and apparently healthy. t As a matter of fact, there seems to be no record of a time when black-, t berries were killed by frost. The crop' t has been cut very short at different \ times within the past generation by t drought, and in 1881 it was a complete r failure on this account. So far as j frost is concerned there seems to be c no occasion for uneasiness. . e Some observers report that they j have found both plums and peaches t that are sound, and they are hopeful i that there will also be a few apples. i * r ANCIENT WEATHER RECORDS. H The Enquirer is In receipt of a let- t ter from Mr. J. R. Hudson, a former f r?itWon r>f Vnrk countv: but now DOSt- I master at De Queen, Ark., and In this a letter Mr. Hudson gives some very in- ^ teresting information as to weather r history in York county. a "I remember the April snow referred t'o recently as if it were yesterday," says Mr. Hudson, "It was April 15, 1849, which was Sunday. The snow \ covered the ground to a depth of five \ inches and was followed by a heavy freeze. Wheat was in bloom, corn was \ knee high and cotton was a good a stand. Much of the cotton had to be replanted. Timber on King's Moun- i tain was killed to within twenty feet g of the tops of the trees. This spell came at the time of the spring sacra- i mental meeting at Bethel. b "But." continued Mr. Hudson, "this p is not the most remarkable or unusual weather dip that has been experienced }< in your section. I remember hearing v my grandmother Hopkins tell of snow g on June 12, 1812." In conclusion, Mr. Hudson says that ( while the prospects are so gloomy in g our section there is promise of an j abundant fruit crop at De Queen. He says there are 3,000 acres in peaches q five miles south of town, and over b 5,000 acres In the county, and the pros- t pects for an abundant yield are as v good as he has even known. ? u CIRCUIT COURT. v In the last case taken up by the gen- a eral sessions last Friday, that of Jen- a nie Witherspoon. charged with infanticide, the jury returned a verdict of F not guilty. ' Judge Dantzler imposed sentence on ' the various prisoners convicted during 11 the session as follows: Henry Link, housebreaking and lar- '' nn tVia nhalnannc. ^ Beaufort Harper, statutory rape, ^ three years on the chalngang. n John Warllck, assault and battery n of a high and aggravated nature, six a months in the penitentiary. 1 Sam Sibley, Sain Hutchison, Ell n Crawford and Amos Haines, convicted ? of gambling, were each sentenced to u pay a fine of $40 or go to the chaingang for two months. Eli Crawford and Amos Haines paid their fines and o were released. h " > 1- -I t,. v, SecOIlU WeeK jumia ttusncicu LU ? their names yesterday morning as fol- o lows: M. B. Love. J. S. Sturgis, T. u M. Anderson. C. C. Westbrook, S. P. h Wilson. J. W. Gardner, R. L. Wllker- f son. T. J. Wright, W. R. Biggers, W. b Brown Wylle, A. A. Barron, F. C. Hor- b ton. J. J. McSwain. J. J. Henry, Felix a Howe, J. F. A. Smith. W. H. Ford, t W. M. Lucas, D. J. Cobb, E. W. Leech, n T. L. Johnstone, W. H. Haglns, J. B. t< H. Johnson. Jas. M. Wliitesides. L. A. J Harris. (1. W. Knox, J. Ed Harper, W. f G. Locke. M. Carlisle, G. W. Good, A. tl T. Plaxlco, E. P. Baker, T. J. Glenn, F W. H. Dunlap, R. B. Aillson. d The following were excused: A. A. t! Barron, W. R. Bigger, T. L. Johnston, t J. A. Barron was reported not found 1< and L. A. Harris was absent on account of sickness. N The following additional Jurors were [rawn from the seven mile box to fill ut the venire: W. F. Marshall, Geo. T. Schorb, J. ). Wray, W. E. Ferguson, Jesse Parott. J. C. Pursley, M. A. McFarland. The first case called yesterday nornlng was that of the Southern tallway vs. Pride Ratteree. It ended n a non-suit. The next case was that of W. W. tuten vs. the Catawba Power compaiy. This case was taken up yesterday .t about noon and from the present iutlook may continue through tomorow. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? A collection was taken up at the laptist church last Sunday morning or the benefit of the Chinese famine unerers. 11 amounieu 10 ?iu.oi. ? The round trip rate from Yorkille to Columbia on account of the Confederate re-union will be $1.75. *he rate from Blacksburg will be 2.45. ? When Rev. W. C. Ewart became iafltor of the Associate Reformed hurch of Yorkville three years ago, he total membership was 46. Now it s 112. ? The demand for the "All Through he Year" cook book continues. Mrs. dcNeel sells a copy every few days. [>wo were sold at The Enquirer office yesterday. The supply, however is unning short. ? The local merchants, with a few ? Vioi>a Infn O rt ua*c ciacivu *?ibv w.. tgreement whereby after the 1st of day, they will close their stores at 6 ). m. The arrangement will last unit September 1. ? Rt. Rev. Edwin G. Weed, bishop >{ Florida, will make a visitation to he Church of the Good Shepherd for ilshop Ellison Capers on Friday of his week. Evening service at 8 >'clock will be held at the church. ? The candy sale of the U. D. C's at .' W. Johnson's store last Friday afernoon proved successful beyond the xpectation of the ladles who pronoted it. The entire stock of candies irepared for ihe sale was disposed of n little more than an hour and the rross proceeds aggregated $28. Quite i number of people were disappointed hroUgh failure to arrive at the sale lefore the stock had been disposed of. ? The annual election of the Church if the Good Shepherd was held last Sunday with the following result: Vardens?Geo. W. S. Hart, Geo. T. tadcliffe. Vestrymen?M. C. Willis, O. S. Wilkins, W. F. Marshall, W. B. doore, R. C. Allein, R. A. Bratton, tobt. J. Latta. Delegates to council? Jeo. W. S. Hart, W. F. Marshall, R. Allein, W. B. Moore. Alternates? A. C. Willis, O. E. Wilkins, Robt. J, jatta. ? Mr. W. P. Harrison for a number if years past, the popular and effiient cashier of the Loan and Savings iank, has tendered his resignation and he same has been accepted by the toard of directors to take effect on the Irst of May. The reason for the resgnatlon is purely personal, and of no :oncern to the public further than hat Mr. Harrison has many friends vho will be sorry to hear of it, es>ecially since it will probably take dm from Yorkville. He has not yet lefinitely decided what he will do; but hinks he will probably take a posilon with a bank In Charlotte. ? Yorkville and McConnellsville earns played a game of baseball on he York Cotton mill grounds in Yorkille last Saturday, with the result hat the Yorkville team was the winler by a score of six to three. The rlcConnellsville team consisted of Jlenn Love, pitcher; Joe Moore, catchir; Lester Harshaw, first base; Oscar ifoore, second base; William Ashe, hird base; Carlisle Moore, short stop; i. McCleave, left field; James Wiliams, centre field; Bratton Clinton, ight field. The Yorkville team conisted of Kenneth Lowry, pitcher; Au?rey Willis, catcher; Robert Lindsay, Irst base; Guy Louthlan, second base; tobert Allein, third base; Jas. Barr, hort stop; Bennie Barron, left field; V. G. White, centre field; Oliver Hart, ight field. Mr. William Lowry acted is umpire. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Thomson are dslting friends and relatives at Due Vest. Miss Annie Scott left last night on a 'Islt to her brother, Mr. Rodney Scott .t Trenton, Fla. Misses Bessie Pegram and Fredrica dndsay of Wlnthrop college, spent Sunday and Monday in Yorkville. Mrs. J. M. Brian and son, Master 3arr, left last night on a visit to her irother, Mr. Wm. E. Bell at Trenton, 'la. Rev. E. E. Gillespie, pastor of the 'irst Presbyterian church of Yorkille, preached at CJemson college last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Turner of }rover, N. C., spent Saturday and Sunday in Yorkville, the guests of lisses Willie and Lee Williams. Information from Dr. Thos. W. ,'ampbell is to the effect that there las been no improvement in his condiion, and that he can last but a short ,-hlle longer. Mr. J. L. Williams has been quite inwell since his return from Greenille, suffering from an attack of cute indigestion. Mrs. Williams was lso sick yesterday. Mr. John Smith and sister, Miss Imma of Henderson, Rusk county, 'exas, are visiting relatives and riends in Clover, the guests of their ncle, Capt. W. B. Smith. Mr. A. W. Love of King's Creek, was i Yorkville today on business for the rst time in quite a while. He has een having quite a long siege of sickess. About the middle of last sumler he had at attack of typhoid fever, nd just as he was recovering from his he went into a case of pneumoia that kept him in bed until the first f the year. He has been on crutches ntil a few weeks ago; but is now etting along nicely. Mr. A. C. Gentry, former principal f the Yorkville Graded school, has ad the misfortune to have a leg roken. The South Boston, Va., News f April 18, gives the following particilars: "Mr. Abner Gentry, while on is way home, to Bethel Hill, N. C., rom South Carolina, where he has ieen engaged in business, fell and roke one of his legs just above the nkle joint. Mr. Gentry arrived on he east bound A. & D. train at Denilston last night, and started to walk a his home on the N. & W. railway, ifter going a mile or two he saw a reight train coming and in leaving he track fell with the above result, 'ortunately, he was seen by the conuctor and was brought to this place his morning where Dr. H. S. Belt set he limb. He is doing well and will ;ave in a few days for his home." Chester special of April 21, to the lews and Courier; Mr. John F. Oates, ing up there that It la the exception 1^ of a man who knows what it Is to be jo the popular dairyman, had an adventure with his Jersey bull Friday afternoon that might have terminated very seriously for Mi4. Oates but for the strength of the chain with which the animal was tethered. Mr. Oates was walking through the lot entirely unconscious of danger, when, with a lunge, the bull made at him. He was caught on the horns of the powerful creature and hurled several feet, landing on his left arm and spraining his wrist severely. The bull attempted to follow up his attack, but the chain with which he was fastened held securely and Mr. Oates was able to crawl out of danger. The animal had never before displayed a vicious temper, and Mr. Oates was totally unprepared for the sudden and terrible attack. A bright young lady of McConnellsville, Miss Eleanor B. Sanders, daughter of Mr. O. L. Sanders, carried, off the honors at the commencement exercises of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. The question of standing was settled Saturday, and the commencement exercises were held In the Citadel Square Baptist church, beginning Sunday | night. The News and Courier of yes- j rcicis 11/ me tixuinpi* ui. iinoo i Sanders as follows: "A great deal of excitement was caused throughout the college when It was learned that the college cup, which is given annually to the graduating class, would go to the only woman In the class, Miss Eleanor B. Sanders of McConnellsville, who, by her superior standing, both in dally records and on the examination tests, stood at the first of the class. It is the first time In the history of the Institution that the cup has been won by a girl, and It Is even more creditable for her to have won it because of the size of the class, twenty-three members being enrolled." LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January 1st, 1908, for $ 1.38. Communion at Bethel. There was an old time crowd at the spring communion at Bethel last , Sunday, the surrounding country be- | Ing represented for a distance of many miles. Did Not Get Caught. Mr. M. L. Thomasson, who lives about three miles north of YorkvlUe, who has for years had the reputation of being one of the first farmers In the country to plant corn, did not i have hist crop killed by the frost this year. He had not planted It. For some reason he waited longer than usual and his corn is only Just now about ready to come up. More than once In previous years, Mr. Thomasson has had his corn crop cut down by frost, and has had to replant, but this year he has lost nothing but his rAnQtlnc pnr nfltrh. Lot* of Coot*. Although the one mentioned In The Enquirer of Friday was the only one that had been reported up to that time, it appears that quite a number of coots were blown into this section by the southwest wind of last week. At least a dozen of the birds have been reported as having been caught in various places, and Mr. M. L. Thomasson reports having found one dead. Several wild ducks have also been reported as having been caught i during the latter part of last week. The probability, of course, is that all the birds have been blow'n up from the seaccast. Charged With Perjury. Mary Ellen Smarr and Jack Good, the two negroes who foreswore themselves in the case of Jim Bryant charged with burning the barn of Mr. i J. Luther Whitesides are to be prosecuted for perjury. They gave very damaging testimony against Bryant at the preliminary and at the trial < went back on it all, claiming that their i previous testimony was given through fear Warrants were sworn out last i Friday. The Smarr woman, who had i been released, was re-arrested and re- i committed. Good was being beid on another charge and had not been released. Another Incendiary Fire. News was received here this morning of another incendiary fire in the 1 Steel Creek section of Mecklenburg county. The barn of Mr. Frank Erwln was destroyed with contents in- ' eluding several head of mules and 1 horses. The phone lines have been 1 working so badly that it has been impracticable to get any definite or sat- ' isfactory information; but there seems ) to be no doubt that the fire was incen- 1 diary, the work of the fire-bugs who ' have had that whole section in a state ' of terror for some months past. This 1 is the seventh barn burned in this 1 same neighborhood since last Christmas. ' Troops to Go to Jamestown? Col. Henry T. Thompson of the Sec- ' ond regiment, was in Yorkville last 1 Saturday for a conference with Col. 1 W. W. Lewis, of the First regiment ! with reference to taking the troops to Jamestown. The question at issue ! involves the extent to which the regiments will be allowed to make use of 1 their pro rata shares of the Federal and state appropriations, and what kind of an agreement can be reached ' with the Third regiment, which will * go to the Isle of Palms instead of to < Jamestown. Colonels Lewis and 1 Thompson did not arrive at anything ( definite in regard to the matter; but ' the outlook is that arrangements will 1 be perfected for the Jamestown trip. Chicora Mill Changes Hands. The following from the current issue of the Textile Manufacturer's Journal, will be read with interest by many manufacturers in Piedmont Carolina: "The Hamilton Carhardt Cot- ( ton mills have been incorporated un- ' der New York's laws with a capital of 1 5500,000, of which 5300,000 is prefer- 1 red and 5200,000 common stock. * This company has purchased the mills formerly known as the Chicora mills of Rock Hill, S. O., which they will take possession of May 1st. This plant was one of the mills Incorporated in the Southern Textile company and subsequently purchased by the Bellevue Cotton mills. It Is stated that the plant will be doubled in size and a dye house added. The output will be denims and will be used by Hamilton Carhardt, manufacturer of overalls, Detroit, Mich. This concern Is one of the largest overalls manufacturers in the country aftd consumes a large product annually." The Southbound at Marion. Dr. J. J. Hagins, formerly of Rock Hill, now located at Marion, N. C., because of the condition of Mrs. Hagin's health, was in Yorkville yesterday. He thinks, the country around Marlon is wonderful; but says that the people are simply paralyzed with s liquor. There is so much liquor drink- ? it his real self. There is one big listlliery and two big rectifying slants that turn out liquor in tremend>us quantities. He says that the rail oad and other works have put the irice of lumber so high that the farners have quit their farms and gone :o cutting timber. The Southbound -allroad, he says, is also something vonderful. It runs amout two miles south of Marion being unable to get nto the town because of the heavy rrade. It parallels the Three C's from Marlon down to Thermal City, a dis:ance of about twelve miles, some:imes running within a few yards and igain being half a mile or more away, rhat is because the Three C's winds ibout so much, and the Southbound is jtralght. The doctor understands that :he Southbound is costing something ike 180,000 a mile. At one place near Marion, a tunnel makes a loop under ? n?,umtoln on/1 fho moH ArnflRAfl it self, this remarkable piece ot engileerlng being In order to preserve the I per cent grade. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A slight earthquake shock was felt In Charleston and Summerville last Friday morning at 3.25 o'clock. There Mas a rattling of dishes and glass and shaking of chimneys, but the vibration was not sufficient to crack the plastering. ? Spartanburg hotel and housekeepers are experiencing a beef famine in that city. Local farmers are not offering any home raised cattle on that market, and butchers are finding it difficult to secure supplies from western points. ?Spartanburg Herald, Friday: Cockfighters and fanciers of game fowls, with a sufficient number of representatives of the sporting fraternity to make things lively, assembled yesterday, it is said, at a well selected pit not far distant from Spartanburg and held one of the liveliest mains which have been pulled off in the past ka.va.wkl ??aa wa I * uma a nun lout Kn ^ nctuiai j Krai o, xv n aa a v,vrsai^ov w tween North and South Carolina, It seems, and from all accounts the Palmetto state birds had a regular walkover, winning what was scheduled to be a' tsvelve-flght affair by killing the first seven cocks pitted by the Tar Heels. Following, the main fights, the hack events were pulled off In rapid succession and It was late in the afternoon when the crowd returned to Spartanburg. The quality of the birds pitted In the main events yesterday is said to be very much better than has been attendant at the South Carolina fights in recent years, and most of the bird fanciers who were present say the day will long be remembered. ?Charlotte Observer, Saturday: The big artificial lake at Great Falls, S. C., will be one of the finest fishing places In the South Atlantic states within a few years, if the plans of Vice President W. S. Lee, Jr., of the Southern Power company do not miscarry. Recently he planted 10,000 young black bass in the pond and he has several other lots coming. He intends to stock the lake with only the finest quality of fish and then prohibit their taking for several years to come. When the lake la well stocked and the fish are large, he will Issue permits to a few friends. The most stringent regulations will govern the fishing privileges. The Southern Power company Intends to purchase a handsome little naphtha launch for service on me laxe. xnere are iew finer stretches of water to be found anywhere. From the big concrete dam to the head of the lake must be a mile. The natural canal which ie the bed of the lake Is about a quarter of a mile In width. The water is as clear as crystal. In the sunlight, It shimmers as if the surface were flecked with diamonds. ? Columbia special of April 20, to Greenville News: It is likely that the case against Dispenser Wolfe will be pushed after all. It will be recalled that when Wolfe's friends made up the amount with which he was charged as shortage at the Union depot dispensary, Wolfe was released on his own recognizance. The county board having secured the money was willing to drop the case and as the board had sworn out the warrant the solicitor agreed upon the request of the board to drop the case. Attorney General Lyon was out of the state at the time but upon his return he wTote the solicitor that he desired to talk with him about the matter and when Solicitor Tlmmerman was in the city this week he called at the office of the attorney general and they discussed the matter. It was agreed that Wolfe should be required to strengthen his bond before Recorder Stanley, the magistrate who issued the warrant and steps tvere at once taken to have this done. While the matter Is one for the solictor to manage, Mr. Lyon as head of the law department of the state government does not think It advisable or proper to let such cases drop without prosecution, and he therefore instructed the solicitor to prosecute the ease. Solicitor Timmerman was consulted by telegraph when the board Irst acted in the matter and he merely icceded to their request to drop the ease later. ? Union, April 20: One of the most jnique damage suits ever brought in i South Carolina court is that of $1,>00.50, which has been instituted igainst the wife of a prominent merehant at Jonesvllle for assassinating a irespasslng hen. Several weeks ago, H. J. Hames, former alderman of Fonesville, and substantial merchant, lad planted his garden. Next to Mr. Hames lives J. M. Albright, whose !owls, following their natural instinct, 5egan depredations on the seeds Mr. Hames had so carefully planted. Requests to keep the chickens out of the garden were of no avail. One day Mrs. names discovered a nen, nm um; nvestigating but really devouring lome of the seeds already planted in Mr. Hames's garden. She requested :he hen to depart with the well known levice of skirt shaking and loud cries jf "S-h-o-o!" and to accelerate the chicken's movements fired a stick at :he Intruder, who went down for the Jount. Seeing what she had done, Mrs. Hames called to her neighbor and :old her of the occurrence and then :ossed the hen over the fence. Over :he fence is out. There its owner lulckly .wrung its neck, and at noon 3iddy formed an important part of the Jill of fare on its owner's table. But lotwlthstandlng the substantial and lelectable meal "Biddy" furnished, the 'eelings aroused by her hastened death rrew and as a result a lawsuit devel>ped. Mr. Hames offered to pay 60 :ents, which Is a goodly price for hens, except around Jonesville it seems, but hat was not satisfactory. Greater lamages must be paid, and in the :omj)laint that has been filed it is itated that the damage asked is 50 :ents for the fowl and $1,000 for "hunlllation," it is supposed on account if the owner not having the privilege if killing his own fowl. MERE-MENTION. It is reported In New York that Henry C. Frick, the Pittsburg millionaire, has made a deal whereby he hopes to succeed Boise Penrose, as United States senator from Pennsylvania Dr. Oliver Crook Hauffh, convicted of murdering his father, mother and brother, was electrocuted at Columb.us, O., last Friday Jacksonville, Fla., was damaged 9100,000 by a hurricane last Friday. Three lives were lost... .Enrioc Alfono was arrested by New York police last week during a raid for concealed weapon carriers and identified as a man wanted in Italy for participation In at least twenty-five murders Several tnousana rans restaurant ana caie waiters are on a strike and the army has been called on to preserve order. The bronze statue of Jefferson Davis, which Is to be unveiled In Richmond on June 3, was drawn through the city to the monument site last Thursday by 3,000 children Ex-Congressman Wadsworth of New York, declares that President Roosevent is a "fakir and a humbug." During three days of last week 18,000 Immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, N. Y. Nearly 10,000 were landed Thursday The Catholic cathedral of Mexico City, one of the oldest, largest and most famous in the world, was cracked from top to bottom by the recent earthquake... .Heavy snows fell throughout the northwestern states last week, damaging the wheat crops and practically destroying any prospects of fruit and berries The house of assembly of New York state last week passed a two-cent rate oill with but one dissenting vote.... Two severe earthquakes were felt. at Manila last Thursday. No serious damage resulted There were 76,jUO deaths in India during the week ending April 13, from the plague. The epidemic began In 1897, since which time there has been nearly 1,600,000 deaths The financial budget of the Japanese diet, recently adjourned reached the unprecedented sum of {306.000,000 for 1907-08 Japan Is experiencing a reaction of the boom In company promoting which began (n 1906, and as a result there has been a rapid decline in the price of shares, and many mushroom fortunes are dwindling Iloilo, capital of Island of Panay, Philippine Islands, was destroyed by Are last Friday, making 20,000 people homeless Mrs. Margaret 8ma! ley has been arrested in Chicago on the charge of murdering her blind husband by throwing him ah# r\9 o fhlrH otnrv u/lnHAW Thft present famine in Russia is described as being the worst in the history of that country. Relief is not expected until the growing crops are harvested. Thomas Longboat, a Canadian Indian, covered a distance of twentyfive miles in the Marathon road, races In Boston last Friday in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 20 seconds. Longboat was one of 114 runners... .Bank burg: lars dynamited a safe at Weston, 111., Friday morning, and got away with * ' $2,000, after holding the town in a state of terror for more than an hour. ... .A negro convicted in a New York magistrate's court last week of creat' ting a disturbance and carrying brass knuckles, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for three years Flf1 teen thousand coal miners are on a strike In British Columbia James R. Dardas, an architect, was held up ' by two women footpads in New York Saturday and robbed of his watch, i scarf pin and $50 in money The i Worw men's party of Belgium is agti tatlng for a republican form of govi ernment to succeed the present monarchy as represented by King Leopold, i ....Captain George Curry, at present governor of ?amar, has been appointi ed governor of New Mexico, vice Governor Hogerman, resigned Estli mates from the earthquake districts of i Mexico place the number of deaths at 600 The residence of Rev. Father Yankoln, at Haxleton, Pa., was dynamited by members of the Blackhand i society last Friday morning. The negro exhibit at the Jamestown exposition is assuming large proportions and bids fair to . make a creditable showing of the progress of the colored race duiing the past few years 1 Because mey were iuwmum u> w ?*tempt to get married, Mabel Pendleton and Stuart Gay of Staunton, Va^ committed suicide by jumping from & high bridge into Jackson river last Friday... .Three persons were injured by the explosion of a gas retort at the carpet manufacturing plant of Dob8on Bros., Philadelphia, last Saturday. About 4,000 employees were temporarily thrown out of employment by the Are following the explosion Hail to the depth of twelve Inches Is reported as having fallen in Yorktown county, Texas, last Friday. Crops were badly damaged J. C. O. Morse has been appointed receiver for the Uncle Sam Oil company at Fort Scott, Kan The British torpedo boat-destroyer A rial collided with the breakwater near Valleta, Island of Malta, Friday night and sank in deep water. One man was drowned Dr. E. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, believes that he has discovered an antl-toxln that will cure and prevent spinal meningitis. George Armstrong, proprietor of the London Globe, died In that city Saturday at the age of seventy-one years The United States war department is asking bids for furnishing a large number of horses and mules for service in the Phillnpines, Cuba and Panama An Atlantic Coast Line freight train ran into a split switch at Thomasville, Ga? Saturday afternoon wrecking thirteen cars. There were no casualties... .President Rons#>velt will eo to his summer home I at Oyster Bay on June l?th Benedict Glmbel, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, died In New York yesterday, as the result of self-inflicted wounds made with broken glass. He cut his throat and also his wrists in an effort to commit suicide Two persons were killed and one seriously injured on a Seaboard Air Line croesIng three miles south of Petersburg, Va., yesterday morning Three persons were drowned in the Delaware river near Chester, Pa, yesterday, as the result of the capsizing of a boat Four white boys, ranging in age from fifteen to twenty-one years, are held by the coroner's Jury at Danville, Va., on the charge of having caused the death of Ellen Elliott colored, in that city Saturday night Three 'Jl ?I''1wAtinHoH soldiers wnc IU1ICU O.UU lire rru.u>.by Terrorists at Lodz, Russian Poland yesterday. The soldiers were guarding a carriage in which money was being transported to a bank. The Terrorists secured $2,000 The "cry of the unemployed" was raised In London last night, when a procession eight miles long marched to the house of commons to Impress their grievances upon the government A portion of the Copper Ridge tunnel on the L. & N. railroad, near Knoxvllta, Tenn., caved in Monday. The tunnel will probably be closed to traffic for several weeks.