Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 30, 1907, Image 2

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Scraps and .Jacts. ?The United States uses six times as much wood as all the European countries, according to a statement Issued yesterday by the Forestry Service oi the department of agriculture. The country consumes every year between three and four times more wood than all the forests of the United States grow In the same length of time, and a timber famine Is predicted unless government control or other means be Instituted to secure a more economic use of lumber. ? An order abolishing the great military divisions In the United States was issued by the war department last Friday by the direction of the president, taking effect at the end or the present fiscal year. Then the divisions will become departments with the same territorial Jurisdiction, except Missouri, which is transferred from the department of Texas to the department of Missouri. This does not apply to the Philippines, where the existing organization will be retained. The change Involves considerable rearrangement of commands, wherein the several departments now commanded by brigadier generals, will be commanded by major generals. ? Percy Fonvllle, former conductor of the Fort Mill bucket shop through which Franc H. Jones, former teller of the Charlotte National bank lost so much money was arrested in Alabama last week and taken to Charlotte. Detectives have information that Fonville and Jones were together In Atlanta a few days after Jones' disappearance from Charlotte. The detectives watched Fonvllle until they decided that there was no hope of capturing Jones through him and then they took him in custody. On a hearing before United States Commissioner Cobb at Charlotte, Fonville was bound over in the sum of $10,000. He was unable to furnish the bond and was committed to await trial. ? A bold attempt to wreck Southern Railway train No. 43, near Harrisburg. eleven miles from Charlotte was frustrated last Friday night by the presence of mind of the engineer, who brought the train to a stand still within a few yards of a pile of cross ties laid across the track. The conductor saw three men running through the woods after the train stopped and fired at them without effect. Blood hounds were sent for and a posse joined in the hunt for the train wreckers. At midnight two white men and a negro, suspected of the crime, were captured in the woods several miles from the scene of the attempted hold-up. They refuse to talk and their names are not known. They are being held pending an investigation. ? State8ville special of April 29, to Charlotte Chronicle: News of the tragic death of two young ladies of Shlloh township, this county, reached here this morning. Yesterday afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock a boat on the Catawba river containing Misses Sallie Fulbright, Eliza Ooble and a younger sister of Miss Fulbright, and Messrs. .Dan Moore %nd Boyce Johnson, was swept over Lookout Shoals, a few miles above Catawba station, and Miss Sallie Fulbright and Miss Goble were drowned. The men managed to save themselves, and Messrs. Ed. Lippard and Oscar Sigman, who were on the bank, swam out and saved the younger Fulbright girl, who had managed to get hold of the boat. All the occupants of the boat were returning from Piney Grove church, Catawba county, where they attended services. It is reported that the men had been drinking and lost control of the boat. The bodies of the girls had not been recovered early this morning. ? Oklahoma City, April 29: With Lightning creek out of its bank and the Canadian river rising steadily the people In the lowlands of Capitol Hill, a suburb, tonight are facing a situation that may become critical if the heavy rains of the last twenty-four hours continue. Lowlands have been converted Into swamps, crops have been ruined and much stock has been drowned. No human lives have been lost so far as caa be learned tonight Residents of the bottoms were forced to leave thejr homes Sunday night and several persons were kept in trees all night. One house floated down the Canadian river with a family inside. The occupants were rescued. Four inches of rain accompanied by heavy hail and high winds fell throughout southwest Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle today. Telephone and telegraph wires are down and communication with many towns is cut off. The storm has damaged the cotton crop seriously. In Tulsa three inches of rain fell and it is raining again tonight. ? A Norfolk dispatch of April 23 tells this story of how a North Carolinian was easily picked up by an exposition swindler: R. C. Parks of North Carolina, Is making loud, bitter and vindictive complaints tonight over having purchased from a stranger for $2,000 the Citizen's Bank building on Main street, the skyscraper of which Norfolk Is so proud. The story of Parks is that he was standing on the street admiring the building, when a well dressed and most pleasant spoken man approached him with the remark that he owned the building, which he desired badly to sell because of his urgent need for ready money. He said that he would take $2,000 for the property. Parks was much interested and, after being shown through the corridors, offered to give $1,500. The stranger, however, gave the name of H. E. Holmes, declined to accept this sum. It was arranged that Parks should pay $800 down and be accorded a long length of time in which to meet the deferred payments. Parks, who had nearly $1,000 handed it to the affable stranger, who made a precipitated retreat. It was not until several hours later that the North Carolinian learned that he had been swindled. ? Norfolk, Va., April 28: Most of the governors of states, or their rep irsenimives hiiu ?cie ucic ku ai?.iiu the Jamestown exposition opening have returned to their homes, following the conclusion of the exposition ceremonies, which yesterday took the form of dedicatory functions and official receptions at several of the state buildings including Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut. Those who departed were Lieutenant Governor Chanler of New York; Governor Lea of Delaware: Governor Woodruff of Connecticut: Governor Swanson of Virginia: Governor Warfield and staff of Maryland, and the Maryland state commission together with the governor's party of 175 prominent Marylanders and Baltimoreans. The official statement of the Jamestown exposition opening attendance shows that there were 54.000 people within the grounds. The turnstile statement shows a total of 38,240 admission tick- \ ets including paid tickets and passes, r This statement does not Include, how- t ever, the people who entered the ser- a vice and carriage gates and several \ thousand who came ashore from the h fleet of war vessels anchored in s Hampton Roads. , t <Thc ||orbnUc <?nquiw. I i YORKVILLE, S. C.? TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1907. Where there is as much as a column of It, our mere-mention department represents more labor than any other three columns in the paper, and its value to the general reader is in proportion. Readers of The Enquirer are able to keep up with the general occurrences of the world through this department with less effort than in any other way. Tomorrow, May 1, Is Labor's New Yeah Day, the day upon which the issues in dispute between capital and organized labor are usually Joined. Reports from all parts of the country Indicate that the situation is generally satisfactory except in San Francisco, where there is considerable disturbance. Business and industrial conditions were never better than at this particular time, and there Is so little occasion for reasonable discontent that the labor agitators are at a discount. W'E are unable to break loose from the conviction that the agitation against the cotton gamblers has had as much to do with high prices during the past few years as supply and * -1 * - a ?11 * demand. All ine interests auu an mv influence of the predominating element of the cotton gamblers has been in favor of low cotton, and there is no reasonable doubt that the cotton ex- ^ changes, through their future contract systems, have for years made cotton * sell for less than it was worth. Every ^ cotton producer should war against the cotton gambler. ^ ? C The establishment of Juvenile reformatories in various states has generally been followed by indirect benefits that are as great as the dl- ^ rect benefits. The feeling against confining youthful offenders against the laws with hardened criminals is universal. It follows as an easy matter, of course, that in ninety-nine cases . out of a hundred where a young man or an old man deserves punishment and escapes, he becomes worse than j before. This is not a matter of theo ry; Dut .a ract mat nas u?eu cow?.u- ? lished throughout all ages and taught ^ in almost every book of Holy Writ from Genesis to Revelations. The ? surest guarantee of a good man or ^ woman is proper home training and this the great majority of the children of the land get. But a large minority fall in it. Where parents fall to do their duty by their children, the chil- , dren are never brought to realize that , they owe any duty to their parents, | and children who do not realize a duty t to parents, realize less duty to " the public. The boy or girl who goes estray from his parents becomes jj a menace to the community, and can only be kept in.check by harsh meas- ^ ures. He needs to be coerced, directed ( intelligently and made to do. This t can be done best in a reformatory. The existence of a reformatory would j have a wholesome effect on negligent J parents as well as their children, j Such parents would be forced to be j more careful in order to keep their i children out of the reformatory, and ( the children would be more careful for ? fear of being sent there. Of course, < it is not to be understood that a re- ( - ... / formatory such as Is desired In tms state is to be a place of punishment. The idea is to be correction, discipline and Improvement rather than punishment. But no matter how this may be, the reformatory will always be looked upon principally as a place of punishment and for that reason it will be dreaded by both parents and children. Juvenile offenders on the verge of ruin, sent to the reformatories more often than otherwise come out useful men and women, and the establishment of such an institution in South Carolina would be worth far more to the state than It Is ever likely to cost, either by reason of the original outlay or subsequent maintenance. Captain Crawford. The death of Captain Edward A. < Crawford closes the record of a long life of useful endeavor in the promotion of the happiness, welfare and security of the people among whom he ' lived. Those who knew Captain Crawford < best are agreed that in nobility of character, broad liberality, and sincere ( desire to be of use in the world, he occupied a high place among his fel- 1 lows. Those traits were developed in | early life, and they stood out promi- j nently to the end. i As a young man going forth to fight 1 his country's battles, his comrades ( were not slow to pick him out as a i worthy leader, and the correctness of 1 I J In 1 llieir juugiiicui linn iuiij juoim^u ?? the four trying years in which he served them as their captain. His career as a soldier was characterized throughout by faithfulness to those under his orders, patriotic courage of the highest quality and unswerving loyalty to duty, whether in camp or in line of battle. But it was not in war alone that Captain Crawford did his duty. Returning home to a peace that was worse than war, he continued to strive as best he could always for the advancement of his fellows, and the confidence he won in early manhood knew no weakening even amid the gathering shadows of old age. Captain Crawford was always kind and genial, loyal to his friends and generous to his enemies. There was no place in his makeup for spite or malice, and he was disposed to be patient and forgiving even while he had reason to believe he was suffering from injustice. But if he yielded to r bitterness at all, it was soon forgot- ( ten. ? One of the best evidences of the esteem in which Captain Crawford was p held among his fellows was the * strength he always developed as a J candidate for political office. Though without extensive means after the ] var. especially In later years, and lothing upon which to base his claims or votes except his record as a man ind his character, people worked and roted for him with enthusiasm that % las grown rare in this day of selfieeklng politics. There was much that was good in he life of Captain Crawford and the leople with whom he has been asso iated have been made the better by eason of such association. Cotton and Live Stock. News comes from the cotton lands >f far away Texas and Oklahoma of ,rreat prosperity. The cotton seed >il mills are great aids to the cattle tusiness. The cotton seed hulls and neal have fine markets, as feed for >eef cattle and the oil is used by )ackers to make lard. Formerly Texts cattle, fatted with hulls and meal, vere shipped to Chicago. The oil vent there also to be refined or comjounded with beef suet into lard. S'ow great stock yards and packing establishments have been developed it Fort Worth. This correlation of cotton seed and eattle is a most Interesting developnent. The cattle are fed and fatted >n cotton seed hulls and meal to make >eef, and the fat of the beef Is used n turn to make a cooking compound >f the cotton seed oil, and the forner freight paid to and from Chicago tnd Kansas City is not only saved, )ut the money paid out for wages to io this manufacturing is paid in Texts instead of being paid in Missouri or llinois. It would seem as if the farmer in hese eastern cotton states might give nore attention to'raising beef cattle ind other live stock, and by the use >f cotton seed products get better values all round and maintain at lome industries from which other sections are now reaping a harvest.? Charlotte Observer. Although the above suggestion does lot excite much interest at the present time, we feel quite sure that some lay the conditions spoken of in Texas vlll also be realized here in South Carolina. Many farmers have given nore or less attention to cattle raisng: but it has usually been as a side ssue rathef than as a serious enter jrlse. Some or our men vi ><uS^ means have also given phases of the >uslness more or less attention; but leither have they undertaken to get lown to serious business. All experiments of this kind, however, whether successful or not have been of more >r less value against the time when >attle raising and beef packing will >ecome Important businesses In this :ountry. We are not prepared to say hat we believe that there is any big irof.t In the business now; but wejdo >elleve that the time will come when ts relative Importance to other busllesses and Industries will be as great is In Fort Worth. St. Louis or (ihlago. PENSION DISTRIBUTION. Vmounts That Are to Go to the Various Counties. The annual pension statement was nade public by the comptroller general last Saturday showing .a total llsbursement of $243,755 to the regilar six classes. The appropriation his year was $250,000 as against 225,000 last year and there was a surplus from last year's disbursements >f $2,378.86, but $5,000 Is reserved this ear for the artificial limb fund prodded for In the new act. The expehse iccount this year is put down at $3,123.66, which includes' expenses of :ounty boards. The pensioners get he same as last year except those in :lasses C 2 and d 4, who get 321.07 >ach instead of $18.25. Class A gets 196, Class B $72 and Class C 1 and C I, $48, as heretofore. The total roll las the usual pension list habit of iteadlly increasing, though the net ncrease this year is only 73, the otal number of pensioners being 9,016. The first pension appropriation was 150,000, but the roll was less than a ifth its present length and those on t get more. The amounts received by he respective counties was as follows: Vbbeville $ 4,298 54 liken 8,584 11 tnderson 14,603 79 Bamberg 1,751 62 Barnwell 3,923 89 Beaufort 890 80 Berkeley 2,773 14 Charleston 4,277 34 Cherokee 6,190 92 Chester ? 4,363 56 Chesterfield 6,948 19 Clarendon 3,715 56 Colleton 8,673 56 Darlington 5,844 32 Dorchester 2,310 72 Sdgefleld 3,616 07 "airfield 3,468 02 ^orence 4,828 09 Jeorgetown 1,494 85 Ireenville 13,439 39 Jreenwood 3,919 84 lampton 5,136 04 lorry 5,995 73 Cershaw.'. 3,408 86 Lancaster , 6,923 07 -aurens 8,239 58 -?ee 3,706 77 ^exington 7,318 79 darlon 6,708 19 darlboro 3,920 96 dewberry 4,452 45 Dconee 7,962 05 Drangeburg 5,596 63 3ickens 6,596 42 Bichland 8,012 29 5aluda 4,583 05 spartanburg 20,670 28 Sumter 4,080 17 Jnlon 6,708 32 iVllliamsburg 5,111 48 fork 8,707 73 Total $243,755 20 DUPLICATE CROSSES OF HONOR. Confederate Veterans Who Have Lost Theirs May Obtain Others. General Order No. 62. 1. The general commanding has exreine satisfaction In announcing that he United Daughters of the Confed;racy have taken steps to supply duplicate Crosses of Honor to those . eterans who have been so unfortulate as to lose the originals. The old nen set so much store by these preJlous badges of affection and honor hat have been bestowed by these node women that they were quite heartji'oken if the crosses were lost or braten. The Daughters, with the same lobility of action and affectionate re?ard, which induced them to offer the crosses in the first place have now erfected arrangements by which the nen may obtain duplicates. Full parliculars as to the course to take to jet a new cross can be had of the learest chapter of the U. D. C. The general commanding cannot find words :o express for himself personally and 'or his beloved comrades the sense of ippreciatlon felt by all at this action, vhich is but a fresh evidence of the ove and consideration which the wor\f tho caiith hflfa OVOl' man! ested. 2. If the press of the south will give i wide publicity to this order, they vill add another to their many former icts of kindness, as well as confer Measure on many sad old Confederate soldiers. Bv command of STEPHEN D. LEE. General Commanding. tffloial: WM. E. MICKLE, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff. ? Eugene J. Tighe, a well known tewspaper man of Washington. D. C., lied in that city last Thursday night, iged forty-nine years. Mr. Tighe was i native of Charleston. ? Clinton J. Holroyd. assistant engineer of the Columbia waterworks, vas drowned Saturday afternoon by ailing into one of the coagulating basins at the city filter plant. Holroyd vas forty years old and a native of Massachusetts. j LOCAL AFFAIRS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jno. R. Hart. Mayor?Publishes an or dlnance relative to carnival showi merry-go-rounds, etc., In Yorkvllle I. W. Johnson, Sec.?Gives notice of i meeting of the Commercial club t be held Thursday evening, May 3rd at 8 o'clock. Full attendance is de sired. First National Bank?Tells you tha the fortune of one of America' greatest street railway magnates began his bank account with a 3 bill. Star Drug Store?Calls your attentlo: to Star liver regulator, which i: purely vegetable and sells for 25c i box. New lot of poet cards just re ceived. York Supply Co.?Quotes R. J. Red ding of the Georgia experiment sta tlon as to what he thinks of th advantages or rianei jr. cuiuvmun T. W. Speck?Wants you to see hlr about a Howard watch If you wdn an absolutely reliable time piece. Thomson Co.?Especially invite yo to come to see the line of Schloa Bros.' clothing at $10 to $20. whlc! It Is showing In the latest and mos fashionable styles. Glenn & Allison?Explain why It 1 that they can give their customer the best values In buggies. A fet horses and mules on hand. M. W. White?Wants you to let hlr buy or sell stocks, bonds and res estate for you. Money to loan o good collateral. York Drug Store?Has full line c Armour and Swift's toilet soaps an Is offering especially good values 1 soaps at 5c to 50c a cake. W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has break fast bacon. Argo salmon, Porto Rlc and N. O. molasses, Lowney's cocos teas, coffees and cheese for you table. Lamm's made-to-measur clothing. Yorkvllle B. & M. Co.?Serge suits a $8 to $15; blue serges, plaid, gra and black suits, $10 to $20: Stet son, Douglass and Ell shoes to men and boys; Panama and strai hats for men and boys. Yorkvllle Buggy Co.?Says that York vllle buggies draw lighter than oth era because they are built truelike a watch. Cottage for rent. Farm work is now being pushe with great vigor all over the country. It is to be sincerely hoped that th theory of the North Carolina lnsur ance commissioner to the effect tha the numerous fires that have occurre In Steele Creek township Is the wor of a crazy negro woman, Instead of a organized band of negroes. If negr men are the guilty parties, they are c course of the meanest and most vl clous class; but with all that it i 'difficult to realize how anybody i this country should be so wantonl vindictive and destructive under ex istlng conditions. We sincerely trus that the insurance commissioner' theory is correct. CIRCUIT COURT. The Jury in the case of W. W. Au ten vs. the Catawba Power compan came out last Friday afternoon a about 3 o'clock, after several hours c deliberation with a verdict for th plaintiff In the sum of .$2,650. The last jury case, that of the ne gro Allen Parker vs. the Carolina an North-Western railroad, resulted in verdict for the defendant. Parker wa suing for 35,000 for injuries that h claimed to have sustained while get ting off the defendant's train, the al leged Injuries being due to the allege negligence of the defendant Judge Dantzler overruled a motio for a new trial in the case of Aute vs. the Power company, and upon be ing asking to grant a new trial nk that is unless the plaintiff would con sent to a reduction of the verdict, too the matter under advisement. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Measles are becoming epidemi again. ? Dlllard Jackson, white, of Hick ory Grove, was committed to jail yes terday by Magistrate Smith of Hick ory Grove on the charge of assaul with intent to kill. ? The Wonderland Shows arrived i Yorkville Sunday afternoon and bega establishing themselves in the Smlt lot on Monday. The shows will b here all the week. ? Beginning tomorrow most of th local business men will close the! stores at 6 o'clock every day excep Saturdays. There are a few who d not feel called upon to conform to sue an arrangement and who will kee open until later. ? The Winnie Davis Chapter Daugh ters of the Confederacy have decide upon June 7 as the date for the un veiling of the monument to the Con federate dead of York county in th cemetery park. Col. Asbury Cowar has accepted an invitation to delive an address on the occasion and Gov ernor Ansel has also been invited t participate in the exercises; but ha not yet said whether or not he can b nrea?nt ? There was a game of baseball be tweenYorkville and Rock Hill boys o the York Cotton mill grounds yester day afternoon. The Rock Hill tear was composed as follows: McLuca: O. Duncan. Mazyck, Massey, B. Dun can, Slmrll, Hlcklln, Barnes, Thomsot The Yorkvllle team: Alleln, Willis, Lowry, Smith, Louthlan, Lindsay, k Lowry, Hart, Waller. The gam which was quite an interesting on resulted in favor of Yorkvllle by score of 14 to 8. ? There has been a correction In th contract between the town of York ville and the Catawba Power com pany whereby the town benefits $60 month from the time it began usin the power to the present and durin the life of the contract. It seems tha as the result of a mlsunderstandln on the part of the power people i putting the verbal agreement In writ ing, they made an error against th town of $60 a month. Mr. G. E O'Leary called the attention of Mi Lee to this error during his stay i: Yorkvllle last week, and although th town was duly bound in writing t abide by the error, Mr. Lee made n hesitation in correcting it. He wa convinced of the correctness of Mi O'Leary's representation, and woul not think of holding for the powe company anything to which he did no believe the company honestly entltlet ? Prof. W. H. Hand of the Sout! Carolina university, with general su pervision of public high school wor! in this state, was in Yorkvllle las Saturday night and talked to severs citizens in the Commercial club oi the subject of securing a portion o the $50,000 state appropriation for th benefit of this community. He ex plained that while under the la\ towns of more than 1,000 inhabitant are estopped from securing excluslv benefits from the high school appro priation, still there Is nothing to pre vent such corporations from comini In, in connection with rural school dis trlcts. For instance, should all th other school districts of York townshi] or a part of them, vote for the levy o special taxes for high school purposes then all could unite in the establish ment of one good school for the ben eflt of all. The boards of trustees o the various districts would become ex officio members of the board of higl school trustees. He explained that the Yorkville school district would be entitled to count aa available for high u school purposes all the money that is i, now being spent on the high school " branches in the graded school. Prof. * Hand's mission was merely to explain I, the method of procedure, and as his - time was limited he was not able to do this fully. On leaving to catch a g train, however, he said that he would s, be glad to come back at some future 1 time and canvass the whole matter as thoroughly as might be desired. s ' ? a CAPTAIN E. A. CRAWFORD. Captain Edward A. Crawford died . at his home In Yorkville last Sunday morning at 20 minutes to 12 o'clock. e after a long and tedious confinement, with complications growing out of it troubles with his heart. Captain Crawford was born In u Chester county In 1830; but has bedn h a citizen of York county during the it greater part of his life, especially since the war, and during that time has been closely Identified with all that has jf concerned, especially the civic development of this Immediate section. " On the breaking out of the war of n secession, he went to the front as a sergeant in what was known as the ? Lacy guards, and upon the re-organn Izatlon of the state troops was elected captain of company K, Seventeenth > regiment. He commanded this com? pany for four years, participating in r many hard fought battles In Virginia e and the west. He went into the sect ond battle of Manassas with thlrtyy - d Ji fe k H wB8& n WtBBSi n ^vPfwV if I .#.$| ': B I ;' " ' : - . - jK it 8 Captain E. A. Crawford. five men and came out with only - twenty, fifteen having been killed or y wounded. He was In the seven days' t fighting around Richmond, a fierce fight on the Rappahannock. South e Mountain, Boonsborough, Sharpsburg, fMnv'n Farm and Petersburg. He was wounded twice at the "blowup," once d in the temple by a flying missile, and a the second time in the thigh by a bul* let; but neither wound was serious e and he did not leave the field. He " surrendered at Appamattox. He figured prominently in the race and political troubles after the war and was a tower of strength to his neigh 11 bors and friends In the Work of holdn Ing misguided and insolent negroes in " check. He early became connected with the Ku Klux organization, and " because of his activity along that line ^ was an especially marked man after i the arrival of the soldiers. To avoid Afreet he left the county and went to west Tennessee, where he remained c about four years, until the situation quieted down. In the first election held under the - constitution of 1868 he wras a candl date for sheriff of York county along It with several other popular citizens; but missed election by about twenty n votes, the late R. H. Qlenn being his n successful competitor. Upon the reh tirement of Sheriff Qlenn some sixteen e years afterward, in 1881, he tried for the office again and was elected by a e big majority. He held the position for r eight years, during which time he disit charged his duties In an efficient and o satisfactory manner. After his retireh ment from the office of sheriff he servp ed as county commissioner one term; but for several years past his health - has been too poor to admit of very ac d tlve participation In either public or - private life. Captain Crawford was married three e times, and leaves one child as the red suit of each marriage. E. A. Crawr ford. Jr., Is the son of his first wife; . Dr. J. P. Crawford is the son of his o second wife, and Miss Winnie Craws ford Is the daughter of his surviving e widow, who was Miss Mary, daughter of the late James Scogglns. He Is - also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Jas. n McFadden of Smith's Turnout, and - Mrs. A. I. Moore of Rock Hill. n The funeral took place from the j, home yesterday morning, the services - being conducted by Rev. W. C. Ewart, i. assisted by Rev. J. L. Oates and conr. ducted at the grave by Rev. E. E. <311L lesple. e The procession to the grave Included e active pall bearers accompanying the a hearse, honorary pall bearers consisting of Confederate veterans, a squad e of the Jasper Light Infantry, and a - line of carriages bearing close reia tlves and friends. Quite a large a number of people from Yorkville and g the country surrounding followed the g remains to the grave. ,t There were nuhierous floral tributes g consisting of bouquets, wreathes, n crosses, etc., contributed by friends at - home and from a distance, and after e these had been placed In position the t. militia fired three volleys and the r. busier sounuea raps. n e ABOUT PEOPLE: o Rev. J. L. Oates of Hickory Grove, o was In Yorkvllle yesterday, s Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Prldmore and r. Miss Ida Ormand spent Sunday with d friends in Rock Hill, r Mr. John G. Anderson of Rock Hifl t spent last Saturday afternoon and I. evening in Yorkvllle. h Miss Virginia Miller of Rock Hill. - is visiting her grandfather, Mr. L. R. k Williams, In Yorkvllle. t W. J. Cherry, Esq., of Rock Hill has il been in Yorkvllle during most of last n week in attendance on court, f Mrs. Cynthia Reinhardt of Forest e City, N. C.. is visiting her daughter, - Mrs. J. W. McFarland of Yorkvllle. v Mrs. W. M. Allison and son. Master s William, returned home Saturday, afe ter spending several weeks In Balti more. Miss Mary Dickson of Winthrop 5 college, spent Sunday in Yorkvllle, - the guest of Misses Annie McPheeters e and Kittle Dickson. P Capt. W. L. Roddey of Rock Hill, f was In Yorkvllle today, having come i, over as a w'itness in a land title case. - It was the captain's first visit here - for a number of years. f Rev. W. C. Ewart went to Lancaster - this morning and tomorrow will peri form the marriage ceremony uniting Dr. Samuel Howard Ezell to Miss Brennle Thompson at Riverside. Associate' Reformed Presbyterian, > April 24: Rev. B. Frank White of Franklinvllle, N. Y., will sail from Boston, Mass., next April 27, to attend the World's Sabbath School convention ? at Rome. Will- visit Palestine, Egypt 8 and other countries and will be absent three months. Charlotte Observer, Sunday: The news yesterday from the Kelly private sanatorium in Baltimore, at which Mrs. LeRoy Springs has been 111 for weeks, was not encouraging. She was barely alive yesterday morning and the attending physicians held out little hope of a betterment in her condition. The following Confederate veterans attended the funeral of Captain E. A. Crawford yesterday: Jos. F. Wallace, B. Frank White, J. J. Hunter, L. R. Williams, N. J. N. Bowen, W. C. Whitpsides. W. E. Erwin. John D. Mc- , Connell, W. H. McConnell, John L. t Starr, H. C. Strauss, T. W. Clawson, I John Caldwell, A. Cody and J. E. J Lowry. Messrs. W. C. Whltesldes and B. Frank White are the only survivors of Captain Crawford's company. Mr. John R. Hart has resigned his commission as captain of company L, First regiment (the Jasper Light Infantry). Information was given to the public through the dally papers last Saturday. Asked about the matter, Mr. Hart said that he had been led to resign because he found that the duties of the position interfered with his professional work to a larger extent than he could afford. He was very, reluctant to give up the place, and as he was very popular with the men of the company, they also dislike to give him up. His successor will be elected by the members of the company. El Paso, Texas, Herald, April 22: A party of nine men Interested In mining In Mexico from Georgia and Alabama are at the Sheldon today and will leave for the south tomorrow morning. MaJ. W. A. Towers, who was In the Fourth Georgia regiment In the Confederate army; Capt. W. R. ( Hester, A. S. Klyce. J. C. Allen. Dr. R. T. Shumate, C. C. Meedham, J. W. ' Garland. Bowman Duncan and J. A. J Manget compose the party that arrived here Sunday and will leave for Chi- ? huahua tomorrow, where they will ' take mules and go Into the Sierra , Madre mountains to visit their property. They visited the El Paso smel- < for fndnv .T P Ponder will ioln the ' party in Mexico. News and Courier: Miss Eleanor Bennette Saunders, the first honor graduate In the class of 1907, Medical | College of the State of South Carolina, is a native bora South Carolinian, and claims as her home the pretty, pro- 1 gresslve little city of McConnellsvllle, J York county. In the sketch of a man | It is customary to give his age first? | but the interviewer sent to call on , Miss Saunders Monday did not have ] the nerve to ask her age; so It may t only be said that she is old enough for t graduation. She studied at home, graduating at the McConnellsvllle , High school, then taking the full four . years' at Wlnthrop college. From , Wlnthrop Miss Saunders came to | Charleston, and four years ago enter- , ed the Medical college. "I have al- t ways, since a little girl," she said, j "wanted to be a physician: but not j until within a few months of the time j I entered the Medical college did I think it would be a possibility. The , matter was first seriously discussed in j August after the spring of graduation | at Wlnthrop, and I came to Charles- j ton a few weeks later. I do not think ( of anything especially Interesting to | tell about myself," she continued, "ex- , cept that while at home, between ses- , slons, I read and practiced some, j Yes, I read about eight to ten hours a day. I had capable and kindly ad- , vice and help from Dr. W. M. Love of , McConnellsvllle. I know that I have | the option of being an interne at the , Roper hospital, but have not made up , my mind about taking it. n is possi- , ble that there may be something bet- ter. i 1 LOCAL LACONIC8. < We Will Send The Enquirer 1 From this date until January 1st, i 1908, for $1.34. < Kimball Acquitted. Mr. J. T. Kimball, who killed J. M. 1 Stephenson on the Plnevllle road in i Mecklenburg county some weeks ago, 1 was tried in Charlotte last Friday and i Saturday for murder and acquitted. I Kimball made out a clear case of self i defense and the Judge directed a ver- | diet of not guilty. < Death of Mrs. Margarj? Guy. Mrs. Margaret Cuy died suddenly at i the home of her nephew, Mr. T. W. i Moore, at Outhriesville last Sunday t night at 10.30 o'clock. She called Mr. i Moore to her bedside at about 10 o'clock and expired shortly afterward, i Mrs. Guy's maiden name was Wll- i Hams, and she was the widow of the I late W. N. Guy of Lowryville. She i was married in 1883 and Mr. Guy died j in 1890. Since then she has been t making her home with different relatives in York county. The funeral i took place at Bethesda yesterday. The < services were conducted by Rev. J. K. s Hall. There was a large number of s people in attendance. i Work at Ninety-Nine Islands. The Southern Power company Is J pushing the work of building the , branch railroad from King's Creek to s the site of the dam on Broad river j and Is making very good progress at , this time. The line is being run { down the west side of King's Creek , and part of the. roadbed will be < through the level bottoms of that stream. Down nearer the river a number of heavy bluffs are encountered and considerable heavy cutting will have to be done. One of the cuts will be twenty-seven feet deep. At 1 the site of the dam work of all kinds ' ? - ,.IU1? t Is being pusneci wun an pu?iuic , speed. The company Is erecting an office building, warehouses and cottages. and has laid down the foundations for a iarge frame building to contain some thirty or forty rooms to be used for a hotel. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Luther Strickland, a life term prisoner in the state penitentiary committed suicide last Friday night by Jumping from the second story of the prison hospital. ? According to a letter received at Gov. Ansel's office from Detective W. H. Newboid at Chester, the man recently caught In the state of Washington and held there as W. E. Perry, wanted for the murder of Mr. Boozer at Chester, is not Perry, for whose capture a reward of $1,000 had been offered. Mr. Newboid says the picture bf the suspect, together with the description, has arrived at Chester from Washington, and that all who know anything of the matter are satisfied that It Is not Perry. Secretary Bethea telegraphed Mr. Newboid that the governor would act on the case when he came back from Jamestown. ? SpartanDurg, Apni mine pmj- i ing with an electric light wire that t runs through a culvert under the l tracks of the Southern railroad, Rob- j ert Calvert, aged fourteen years, who s lived with his parents In the village of r Beaumont, was instantly killed this ii morning about 11 o'clock. Young t Calvert and another boy named t Petty, about the same age as Robert, crawled into the culvert under the n tracks of the Southern railroad v through which runs a small stream, s The wires from the electric light s company run through this culvert to t Beaumont mills. The boys were wading in the water and Calvert spied the a wires overhead and commenced to b prank with them. Petty begged him f to stop, warning him of the danger, t but the boy kept on playing with the n wires. Finally the Insulation was s rubbed off and Calvert was killed by a the shock. p ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Arrival of Dr. Carton?Personal and Other Notes of Interest. JorrMpondrtice of the Yorkrllle Enquirtt. Rock Hill, April 29.?Rev. Dr. Carion of Valdosta, Ga., arrived In the ilty Friday morning and was met by l large committee from the First 3resbyterlan church which has exended a call to him. He was given a eceptton at 8.30 Friday evening In he Sunday school rooms of the ihurch, where the congregation had in opportunity to meet the prospective >astor. Refreshments were served, here was some good music and a very ileasant evening was spent. Dr. Carion preached Sabbath morning and nade a most favorable Impression upin the people. He left Monday afterloon for his home in Georgia, and vhether he will accept the call to Rock -III] is not yet known. Many favorable expressions have been heard md the Presbyterians are hopeful that >e will come. The "College Concert" which forms he last of the Star Course at Wlnhrop college will be given Monday ivening by the departments of Music ind Expressions. There will be Interactive readings by Miss Martea Gould Powell: Instrumental music by Prof. D. A. Bauer and vocal music by Miss Vnna Jones. Mr. Julian Starr has been given the contract to construct a hotel for the Southern Power company at NinetyMine Islands. It Is to be a duplicate if the one which he built for that company at Great Falls. Mr. C. P. Brazlngton, who for some :lme has been connected with the Rock Hill Bottling works, has resigned his position and gone to Kentucky where he will manage a bottling plant for the Coco Cola people. Master James Kinard, son of Prof. I. P. Kinard of Wlnthrop college, while playing on a Joggling board with a number of other children, who were trying to Joggle the board off :he supporting ends, was the unfortunate "under man" when the crash :ame with the consequence of a broken leg. Mr. M. G. Bryant has Just returned from Orangeburg, his boyhood home, where he was called by the sudden Jeath of his mother which occurred ?aturday. Mr. S. H. McManus is a new resllent of this city, having moved In recently. He Is the proprietor of a srooery store In Railroad avenue, which his brother, Mr. J. H. McManus has been managing for several pears. Mr. D. P. Steele Is Improving after in illness of some weeks. Mr. W. Lyle, Black, a Rock Hill man. now with the W. L. & P. company at Florence, visited his relatives Here last week. Mrs. A. R. Smith has returned from i visit to her sick father, Mr. Nelson, in <~iiiiiufii. Mrs. J. J. Waters Is visiting in 3reen\vood. her former home. Mr. Moffatt Klrkpatrick attended the "Intercollegiate Oratorlai Contest" ?t Greenwood. THE 9TEEL CREEK FIRES. Possibly ths Work of a Crazy Negro Woman. Since Christmas six barns have been jurned in the Steele Creek nelghborlood, and Mr. W. L. Scott, deputy nsurance commissioner of Raleigh, jelieves that he has solved the mystery and can lay his hands on the one vho applied the torch. Mr. Scott is lere and will remain In the county ind investigate the matter thoroughly :omorrow. It has been said by many who study :rime In its various forms that some person of unbalanced mind had start?Kia flr?? that consumed the bams In Steele Creek. The barns burned were along the main public roads, and the fires have started at about the same hour of the night and always In the loft In the fodder or other dry 'eed stuff. It will be recalled that a crazy nan tried to burn the town of Rockingham a few years ago. Incendiary fires were breaking out at Irregular intervals and do what they could the jfficers were unable to detect the Are jug. Finally, however, a man was it-rested and was found to have a nania for burning. He said that the Lord had sent him to fire the world. Some time ago the driver of a laun3ry wagon In Wilmington, became laffy on the subject of burning. He fired several buildings and, when suspected left and went to Rocky Mount, where his mania soon took new hold ind made him burn other buildings. When arrested he made a full confession, but argued that he was doing fils duty. The fires had been set In the same way and In the same class )f buildings. The fellow would go Into a building to deliver a package and start a fire In some out of the way corner. He was crazy on the sublect. Knowing of this fire mania Mr. Scott has watched the Steele Creek situation with interest Before the last fire he told Squire S. H. Hilton ind Solicitor Harlot Clarkson that he thought he had located the guilty person. He had been In Steele Creek and fathered evidence against an old colired woman who travels up and down the fire district and who had been In the nelgborhood of each and every fire at the time they occurred. Sometimes she Is clad In the dress of her sex. but at other times she wears nan's clothes. The old negress talks about fires all the time. She always knows about the barns and the stock that are 5urned. The darkies of the community are afraid of her. She slips about ind spends much time In, the woods Uone When asked by an Observer man what chance such a person as the old woman would stand to escape after ?he had set a fire Mr. Scott said that luch people were more cunning than i sane person. Their minds were on that one subject and they studied the situation* carefully before taking the larlng step. Mr. W. M. Long, chairnan of the board of county commissioners, Solictor Herlot Clarkson, 3qulre S. H. Hilton and Mr. Scott will take steps to ascertain the truth ibout the woman. She will be held ind examined.?Charlotte Observer, 3unday. CHINESE FAMINE SUFFERERS. Resident Kaufman Explains How Easily They May Be Helped. 3ditor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer: A correspondent has written me on he Important subject of raising money 'or the famine wrecked multitude In Thlna. He says: "Apart from the philanthropic and ellglous view of the subject there Is I commercial aspect of the case. There s already a very valuable business :onnectlon between South Carolina ind China. A feeling of prejudice igalnst trading with the United States s being nursed by turbulent spirits n that land. But this prejudice has >een largely abated by the generous :ontributlons which have been sent rom America for the relief of their :ountle8s countrymen, now dying rom hunger. "But the Chinese are watching with he most anxious solicitude through heir keen little eyes, to see who will lelp them In their sorrowful plight, >etween this period and the arrival .* .v,o flnnp laHeri a rm v frnnsnort Bu ord and their ripening crop In June." Another correspondent writes: "The vork of the Rev. Dr. Thomas In his leroic struggle to collect money for he famishing Chinese is becoming contagious. Other churches, which lave not yet realized the magnitude >f the disaster In China, are having heir eyes opened and that is all that s -necessary, for we are a sympathetic >eople. What the Baptists of the tate have done In this direction, as eported In the Baptist Courier, is the eaven which seems likely to leaven he whole lump. I know of a pracical Illustration of it." In this connection let me mention a natter of consequence to contributors, rho have not as yet given any conideration to the subject, which will ave them both expense and time in he remittance of their gifts. To those whose fnlnds are in doubt, s to the manner in which money can est be hastened to China for the suferers, I can confidently assure such hat the Red Cross Is now the recoglzed medium, being a government intltutlon, and that it is now used by 11 familiar with Its facilities for the irompt forwarding of funds either to missionary boards or to the central relief committee at Shanghai. Even that good man, Dr. Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald, does his business with China through the Red Cross. And why? Because It means a saving of both time and money, Inasmuch as the Red Cross is the only body to which the submarine cable companies have granted the free use of their wires. This branch of the Red Cross does not wish to interfere with the business of those who prefer to deal through any other agency. That Is the province of each contributor to decide for himself?not ours to do. Those, however, who desire prompt, competent, reliable service, will be sure of receiving it from this branch? a home Institution. The branch has been organized to serve the public and promises to do so satisfactorily In every case and freely without cost. Money is sadly needed?whit a field for the display of Christian charity. Any contributions, however large or small, sent to my address, will be gladly welcomed, promptly acknowledged and forwarded without delay to its destination. A. C. Kaufman. President South Carolina Branch, American National Red Cross. , Charleston, 8. C., April 27, 1907. MERE MENTION. The American Railway association claims that the large Increase In railroad wrecks is due In a large measure to broken rails, which result from defective metals or Inferior workmanship The legislature of New Jersey has passed a law providing for electrocution to take the place of hanging in legal executions In that state Theodore P. Shonts has decided to give Drake university at Des Moine.s, la., fifty service scholarships, for which he will donate $6,000 each year Spain is to add six battleships, six cruisers and several torpedo boats to Its naval equipment... .King Chulalongkorn I, of Slam, is on a tour of the world. He will visit the United States in May....The stats of Illinois is suing the Illinois Central railroad for $3,000,000 back taxes....The Chicago Federation of Labor has refused to assume responsibility for the letter written by Honore Jaxon to President Roosevelt In regard to the tatter's letter in which he described Moyer and Haywood as "undesirable citizens." Dennis Kearney, who caused the passage of the Chinese exclusion act, died in San Francisco last Wednesday. Kearney was known all over the country as the "sand lot orator." As a result of the passage of the trolley Irelght law in Pennsylvania last week the Pennsylvania railroad now offers to run milk trains 300 miles Instead or sixty miles as heretofore Postage stamps commemorative of the Jamestown exposition are now on sale in the large cities Burglars secured $1,000 in stamps and money by blowing open the safe of the Spencer, W. Va., pcetoffice early last Friday morning A Sioux City, la., girl died last week from the effects of strychnine poisoning. Just before she died she said: "I did it just for fun. I wanted to see what death was like." Former Governor Rufus B. Bullock of Georgia, died at Albion, N. Y., last Saturday at the age of seventythree Erastus Bran nan, charged with murder, was acquitted last Saturday morning at Statesboro, Ga., and Immediately after was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to murder The Standard Oil company's tug Radiant, sank in Chesapeake bay Friday night. No lives were lost Col. Robt E. Lee, grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee, will be the orator on the occasion of the reunion of the uuucu ^uuxcuciaic vviciuua ai mond, Va., May 30 to June t A part of the new immigration pier of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Baltimore, collapsed Saturday morn* In*. Three persons are known to be dead.and a score are missing....Four men were killed and nineteen were injured by a falling- wall at Chlome, N. J., Saturday....Three trainmen were killed and two seriously injured by the explosion of a locomotive boiler on che Wabash railroad at O'Fallon, Mo.. Saturday A balloonist traveled from St. Louis to a point near Carrollton, 111., Saturday, a distance of sixtyseven miles in one hour and flfty-flve minutes 8. T. K. Prime, well known throughout the country as the publisher of "Prime's Crop Reports," died In Chicago Friday night as a result of a stroke of paralysis sustained two years ago U. Solomon, campaign manager of the Socialist party for New York, says that the labor unions of the oountry will raise 31,000,000 for the defense of Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone, soon to be put on trial at Boise, la...,.. .Scurvy has appeared in the famine districts of Russia, thus adding to the horrors already existing. Crop prospects are discouraging on account of scarcity of seed for planting An infernal machine was discovered in a desk drawer in the Toledo, Ohio, poetofflce one day last week Memorial Day was observed throughout Georgia last Friday. .John D. Rockefeller has recently given a tract of land comprising about ten city blocks, valued at 12,000,000 to the University of Chicago Sallie Smith, colored, died in Atlanta, Qa., last Friday at the age of 111 years. She was born in Jamestown, Va The killing of General Manuel Barillas of Guatemala in Mexico City a couple of weeks ago, was the work of paid assassins Thirty thousand mill operatives at Fall River, Mass., will receive an increase of 10 per cent in wages after May 27....David Wilcox, former president of the Delaware and Hudson railroad committed suicide * last Wednesday on board the Barbarossa, while the vessel was in raidocean Twenty- three barkeepers of Atlantic City, N. J., are under Indict ment for violation or tne Sunday Closing laws... .James R. For&ker, broth- , er of United 8tates Senator Jaa B. Foraker of Ohio, died In Cincinnati Saturday from the effects of cancer. Count Tolstoy, In his latest book, openly declares for the revolutionists in Russia, advocating defiance of the government, which by refusing the people land and work, makes existence impossible Tariff complications between the United States and France are assuming a phase which threatens to disturb the good relations existing between the two countries The largest single consignment of gold ever received In London, reached that city last Saturday from Cape Town. The amount was <5,503,250 Seven miners were entombed in a coal mine near Johnstown, Pa, last Friday afternoon by water flowing in from an abandoned mine and cutting off means of escape Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, says that President Roosevelt will be nominated for a third term by acclamation Sir Frederick Treves estimates that London has six tons of smut in every square mile of air Wright Brothers of Cleveland, Ohio, are soon to make a test of their airship in Germany. If they are successful In making a flight of fifty miles they are to receive J400.000 from the German government An engine and one car cf a Wabash passenger train jumped the track on a 40-foot trestle near Bridgeville. Pa.. Sunday and fell in the creek below. The engineer and fireman were killed A man named Hoke Is under arrest in the Burke county, N. C., Jail on a charge of having given J. W. Vaughn of Morganton a drink of whisky, from the effects of which the latter died A party of high army and navy officials of China arrived in San Francisco Sunday enroute to the Jamestown exposition.... The expenses of the rural service in the United States during the next fiscal year will be about $35.000,000 Eight men were seriously hurt by a glass explosion in a tunnel at Dayton, Ohio, yesterday Chief of Police Morris of Danville, Va., believes he has captured the notorious negro desperado, Will Harris, who is badly wanted in Charlotte on a charge of murder The Westinghouse Electric company of Pittsburg, Pa., is to issue $5,000,000 of new stock and wants a premium of $25 per share on the Issue Freezing weather still prevails In the southwest from the Texas line to Nebraska... .The Home for Needy Confederate Women, Richmond, Va., has received a donation of $1,000 from Andrew Carnegie. $hf gorhuille Cotton JRarket. Corrected Semi-Weekly by Meeers. Letts Bros. Ydrkvtlle, April 30, 12 m.?The local market stands as follows: Cotton 101 to 11| LATTA BROS.