Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-19
Scraps and faets.


resolution providing for the election of
senators by direct vote of the people
by adding the amendment offered by
Senator Depew. This amendment is as
follows: "The qualifications Of citi-
zens entitled to vote for United States
senators and representatives in con-
gress shall be uniform in all the states,
and congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate legis-
lation and provide for the registration
of citizens entitled to vote. the conduct
of such elections and the certif1cation
Of the result" The committee voted
down the Penrose amendment provid-
ing that senators shall be apportioned
according to the population Of the seve-
raj states. There was general dis
cussion of the merits Of the house res
olution and when the committee ad-
journed it was with the understanding
that a vote should be reached upon 1t
as amended at the next regular meet
ing of the committee, which Will De
held on Tuesday of next week.
Washington SPECIAL to The News
and Courier: Louisiana and Texas rice
planters are much aroused over re-
port to the effect that American ana
foreign spectators are storing large
quantities of China and India grown
rice in the Danish West Indies, with
the intention of shipping it into this
country free Of duty when the islands
are ceded to the United States. Sena-
tor Foster, of Louisiana, has called the
attention Of the secretary Of the treas
ury to the matter that the scheme may
be forestalled, if such one is on foot.
Senator Tillman has offered to co-ope-
rate with Senator Foster in endeavoring
to prevent ,..e free importation of this
foreign grown rice. which would se1
verely injure the rice industry in South
Carolina, as we'll as in Texas and Lou
isiana. If it Is found that the specu-
lators have already brought in large
quantities of rice into the islands pro-
vision will probably be inserted into
the treaty excluding all such rice from
the benefits that will accrue to the ma
tive products. There is only a small
amount of rice grown in the island
and there would be no difficulty in de-
tecting any attempt at fraudulent I'M
portation.
One of the most brutal murders
ever committed in the Indian Territory,
took place a few miles east of Stillwell
q few days ago. A white man named
Dudley, killed his 10-year-old daugh-
ter, fatally wounded two other child
rem and seriously injured his wife.
Dudley has been taken to Sallislaw to
prevent his being lynched. In jail Dud-
lev confessed the crime. He said he
had been talking to his family about
his neighbors and, fearing that they
would repeat his statements and cause
trouble, he determined to kill the four.
He said he attempted to kill them on
Thursday night, when he secured an
axe and went to the bed Of his children.
They were asleep and looked so inno-
cent that his heart failed him. The
next day, however, he carried out his
desire, first Draining his 1O-year-old
daughter with a plow point, then at
tacking his two other younger child
rem and finally his wife. After commit
ting the deed he went to the house OF
his father, where he was arrested yes
terday. Excitement was intense and
there came near being a lynching at
Stillwell before the officers could get
Dudley out Of town. At Sallislaw
when Dudley was told that only his
oldest daughter was dead. he broke
down and cried and said that his only
regret was that he had not dispatched
all the family. Mrs. Dudley will prob
ably recover, but the two children can
not live.
- Mr. Samuel Spencer, president Of
the Southern railway, has made this
statement with reference to the recent
furry in Louisville and Nashville rail-
road stock: 1.-The Louisville and Nash
Vile situation is simply this: Gates
and his associates, apparently without
any consultation with any railroad in
terest in the south or elsewhere and
entirely on their own account bought
in the open market large blocks of the
Louisville and Nashville stock, claimed
now to be clear majority. By reason
of the large short interest, growing
partially out Of the sale by the Louis
VILE and Nashville company of $4,000
shares authorized additional issue
of treasury stock-which was not list
ed and therefore not good for delivery
on the exchange, serious concern was
imminent Morgan & Co. were appeal
ed to to use their influence to prevent
such a disastrous condition. After two
days negotiations this resulted in an
agreement by which the Gates stock
will be deposited with and placed un-
der control Of ]. P. Morgan G. Co., as
bankers and not as representating any
railroad interest, and with no purpose
except to conserve in the best possible
way the general financial and business
situation and to avoid serious compii-
cdllOHS WlllCH nave uCSh iii lcehecASu'
The Southern railway has no interest,
directly or indirectly, in the purchase
of the stock. There is no contest for
control of the Louisville and Nash
ville"
The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions, issued on
April Is, was as follows: Although the
temperature since March l has aver
aged above the normal over the north
arn nnrt;o, of tbe county eaSt of the