Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-23
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China must be careful not to side with
Japan in the event Russia finds 1t nee
essary to adopt final measures. IL Is
stated that Japanese have grown very
restless over the situation and that
public sentiment is strongly in favor OF
a fight. f,,1
"A decision handed down by the Iuil
bench of the Massachusetts, supreme
court last Tuesday, sustains the rul-
ing of the lower court, that person
drunk by the voluntary use of intoxi-
eating liquor, may be convicted OF III
toxication without regard to the place
where the act is committed. The case
in question was that Of the Common
wealth against Anna Conlin, who was
taken from her home in North Adams'
while under the influence OF liquor.
When the police entered the mousse
thew found the woman apparently
asleep on a couch. They aroused her'
and as she was unable to walk, they
carried her to a hack in waiting IN
which she was taken to the station.
They had no warrant. At the triai
the defendant offered no evidence ana
was convicted.
"A dispatch of yesterday to the Cnl..
caeo Tribune from Knoxville, Tenn,
saws. For q third time Silas Hulin,
the supposed victim Of a murder was
"resuscitated" and appeared alive and
we'll in the court room last night as
the chief witness in the habeas corpus
proceedings, brought to have Clarence
Peak, who is under a sentence OF elgn-
teen years for the murder of Huhn'
liberated. The court, however, dis
missed the petition, holding IN erect
that Silas Hulin is dead to all intents
and purposes and that the court had
no legal right to interfere with the
conviction and judgment which hao
been properly secured. An appeal was
presented to the supreme court. Two
wears ago Peak killed a man, who was
identified as Hulin. He was tried and
sentenced. In the meantime Hul1n ap-
peared, but the supreme court disre-
rarded his presence and affirmed the
sentence on it's merits as tried below.
"A dispatch from Hammond, Ind,
to the Baltimore Sun says: In a recent
issue of the Hammond Daily News, an
Independent Democratic organ, Mayor
A. F. Knott's public actions were han
died without gloves. Hot with anger,
the MAYOR sent letter to Editor
t. ~o,.t.
of South Carolina, who had been
bounded by disreputable sheet, found
a way to stop it, and jury OF his
peers has lately found that he was
justified in so doing. I have conclu-
ded that there is a way to stop that
and propose to do it, whether I am
justified or not. If cannot do it one
way I will do it another. Hereafter
YOU must be prepared to safely prove
each and all Of your assertions or be
prepared to suffer the consequences.
The News publishes the letter in fuli'
with a column expressing the EDITORS
fearlessness, calling the mayor self
confessed murderer in thought and in
tent and promising to further criticise
until Mr.. Knott does his Tillman act"
President Roosevelt issued the fol-
lowing proclamation on last Tuesday:
Whereas, BY the resolution of the SEN
ate of March 10, 1903, the approval by
congress of the reciprocal commercial
convention between the United States
and the republic Of Cuba, signed at
Havana on December IL, 1902, is neces-
sary before the said convention shall
take effect; and, Whereas, 1t is impor-
tant to the public interests OF the
United States that the said convention
become operative as early as may DC:
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States OF
America, by virtue of the power vested
in me by the constitution, do hereby
proclaim and declare tnat an extraor-
binary occasion requires the convenin5
Of both houses Of the congress of the
United States at their respective cham
bers in the city of Washington on the
ninth day of November next, at II
o'clock noon, to the end that they may
consider and determine whether the
approval of the congress shall be given
to the said convention.
j. P. Chamberlain, from whom one
of the heroes Of Bret Harte's famous
Tennessee Pardner'' was drawn, shot
and killed himself at his home at Sec
ond Garrote, California, last Saturday,
in a fit Of despondency. Since the
death of his old comrade, Jas. H. Chat
fee, he had lived alone. On account
of Harte's story, Chamberlain's name,
as we'll as his home, came into world
wide prominence. He left a note say
ing that he had lived to his eighty-first
birthday; was getting too feeble for
manual labor and would choose death
Chaffee, who was tie "Pardner' in the
celebrated story, died in an Oakland
sanitarium on July 81 last. He was
eighty years old. Tennessee" Cham
berlain and "Pardner" Chaffee had been
between them a chivalrous affection
When it was found necessary to re-
move Chaffee to Oakland that he might
receive medical aid, the two old men
were heart-broken, and it was pre-
dicted at the time that Chamberlain
could not long endure his life Of sor-
row and loneliness.
The flag postage stamp, which
has been in use for about six months,
will soon be superseded by a new de-
sign known as the shield" postage
stamp. The bureau of engraving is