Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-12-01
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The COlOmDlanS continue 10 tdlh
Of raising a big army to whip Panama
into submission: but reports from Bo-
gotta do not indicate that there have
been any enlistments yet. The feelings
Of the people seem to get sufficient
satisfaction in talk. 1t is quite proba-
BILE that If the Colombians should send
an army to Panama, it's progress would
be intercepted by United States troops.
- Major James E. Runcie and Major
f. Ladd, of the United States army,
were important witnesses last week be-
fore the senate committee on military
affairs, engaged in investigating the
charges against General Leonard Wood.
Major Runcie testified to having been
with General Wood in the capacity Of
confidential adviser while Gen. Wood
was at Santiago and Gen. Brooke was
in command at Havana. He was pres
ent when Gen. Wood planned with Ray
Stannard Baker. a newspaper man. TO
write the famous magazine article at
tacking Gen. Brooke's administration
of Cuban affairs with the object of JUS
tifying Gen. Woods appointment to
Brookes place. Major Ladd gave tes-
timony as to the transaction in which
Gen. Wood gave concession to a big
gambling scheme and received In re-
turn a silver service that was worth
s5.1O0. AS the result of the testimony
of these two witnesses a number or
other important witnesses. including
Gen. Brook. are to be summoned.
The man who wrote "Silver Threads
Among the Cold" Hart Peace Danks.
was found dead beside his bed at 1910
Race street, Philadelphia, one morning
last week Danks had been living IN
Philadelphia for some time unknown
to his old friends and admirers. He
was born in New Haven, April 6, 1884.
When he was eight years old his pa
rents moved to Saratoga Springs, n.
Y, and there the young man began to
study music under DR.. Whiting. In
1850 the family moved to Chicago,
where young Danks engaged In busi-
ness with his father, who was a con-
tractor Then he tried photography,
but his love for music prevailed and he
devoted himself to composition. HIS
first music was q Psalm tune called
Lake Street" His first songs, Anna
Lee" and 1.-THE Old Lane" were pub
lished at Boston and Chicago in 1855.
Among Dankss other popular compost
tions are Don't Be Angry With Me
Darling" "Siver Threads Among the
Gold" Pauline and MOT Ashamed Of
Christ" He composed in all about a
thousand others, more or less forgotten
today.
News and Courier: A washington
dispatch to the Philadelphia Record
says that Elijah Richard Dennis, Ne
gro from Pascagoula, Miss, tried to
see the president on Monday, but was
headed off by the secret service
guards and locked up on the charge Of
insanity" After his arrest the Negro
told the officers that he saw blood all
over the rocks in South Carolina" and
"in a letter to the president from that
state he said Ben Tillman had been
proclaimed king Of the Anti-Christs
and would lead them in war" The
Record dispatch says that Dennis Is
the twelfth crank who has appeared
at the White House during the recent
epidemic, and the officers are watching
for the thirteenth. who the supersti-
tious ones fear will be hoodoo." The
;e hot Naorn nronkS have
not gone to the White House under the
present administration. They have
been encouraged to believe that the
president would receive them. The
Presidents course has been a great en-
couragement to the uneasy, whatever
the color of their skin. He is such a
crank himself.
Three young men, none Of them
quite 21 years Of age. who have been
giving the police Of Chicago and the
officers of the country surrounding, no
end Of trouble during the past three
months on account Of eight murders
and numerous robberies during the
past three months, were captured last
Friday afternoon near Liverpool, Ind,
by a party Of farmers. The names OF
the boys are Peter Niedermier, Har-
vey Van Dine and Emil Roeskie.
Their first notable crime was the rob-
berry Of a street car barn. and the
murder Of one of the men in charge.
They secured over $4,000 in cash. The
police and detectives We're not able to
come upon them until last Friday.
It was in an open field: A hot fight
followed A half dozen or more po-
licemen, armed with Winchesters,
fought the boys armed with revol-
vers. After one of the detectives had
been killed and one or two others were
badly wounded the boys walked off.
track, killed brakeman and made
the engineer carry them some miles on
his engine. Leaving the engine, they
proceeded some distance through the
snow, and were overtaken by some
farmers armed with shotguns. Shots
were exchanged and two Of the boys
were so badly peppered as to be will
ing to surrender. The other got away;
but was afterward captured by a
larger company of officers that had
engineer The boys confess to having
committed eight murders and numer-
Gus thefts.
1t may now be taken as a settled
Ca, hof