Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-29

cotton area, where some fields Of wheat
ruined by drought are being planted
to cotton.
CONGRESSMAN Bartlett Of Georgia,
says a Washington dispatch to the At
lanta Journal, has induced the census
director to adopt a plan by which the
cotton ginnery reports may be issued
more often than once each month. The
innovation has been requested OF the
census bureau for some time, but until
Judge Bartlett presented the plan con-
ceiyed by one of his constituents, ]. r.
Carmichael Of Butts county, the dlrec-
tor found 1t impracticable. Under the
new system the cotton bulletins will be
issued for each county as soon as the
gin report Of that county is received,
and at the end Of the month. when all
of the reports from each county In
state are on hand, the general bulletin
for that state will be issued as under
the present plan. The census director
thinks the new system will prove OF
immense value to cotton planters and
dealers.
The regulations to be observed by
war correspondents with the Russian
army were published at Port Arthur
on Wednesday. Correspondents or
foreign newspapers must have letters
of recommendation from their govern
ments to the Russian foreign office and
every correspondent must promise In
writing not to divulge secret dis
patches or criticize the orders Of those
in command and must similarly agree
to give a true account Of events and
avoid irresponsible reports. They are
warned that in event Of infraction OF
these regulations. indiscretion or want
of fact they will be sent home. All
correspondents are absolutely prohibit
ed from visiting the admiralty docks,
workshops or naval establishments or
from using boats in the harbors or
roadsteads of Port Arthur or Vladivos-
tok. Correspondents must undertake
not to ask that exception be made In
their favor and on arriving at the front
must report to headquarters with their
credentials and an authenticated pho
tograph.
A bill to prevent persons being
buried alive having been introduced in
the legislature of Massachusetts,. has
attracted public attention to the pos
sbility, remote as it is. of that acci-
dent. There are several ways Of deter
mining if death has occurred: Tie a
cord tightly around a finger; if the
end becomes swollen and red life is
not extinct. Inject a few drops Of aqua
ammonia under the skin; if life still
exists a red or purple spot will form.
Insert a bright steel needle into the
flesh; allow it to remain half an hour;
ie life is extinct it will tarnish by oxi-
dation. Place the surface Of a cold
mirror over the mouth: If moisture
condenses on the surface, respiration
has not ceased. In from twelve to
eighteen hours after death eyeballs be-
come SOFT inelastic, feel fiaccid. In
from eight to twelve hours after death
hypostasis, or congestion of blood in
capillaries begins to form in all de-
pending parts Of the body. Putrefac-
ton is positive proof Of death and
takes place by the end of the third
day.
A New York dispatch makes the
announcement Of the probability that
Alexander Mckenzie, a one-legged
beggar has won a prize of 100000
offered by the elevated railroad COM
panies Of New York for q satisfactory
device to protect the third rail Of the
elevated railways so as to prevent
possibility of danger to persons COM
ing in contact with them, and still
leave them so they will properly con-
duct the electricity needed for power.
the tools and materials for experiments
resorted frequently to the expedient of
having himself sent to the island for
violation Of the city regulations
against begging. At the island he was
able to get the use Of all the tools
and materials he needed. His expert
ments were conducted with great Sc
crecy because of his fear that his in
vention might be stolen. He finally
appealed to a charitable organization
and with great enthusiasm the men,
bers are undertaking to get the nee
essary patents for the protection of
the beggar's rights. The nature of the
alleged invention has not been made
public.
The controversy of last Saturday
between Representative DalZell of
Pennsylvania and Bourke Cochran of
New York. was renewed on Tuesday.
Dalzell, still smarting under the first
castigation of Cochran. returned to the
attack. He quoted statement in the
New York Journal of a 'rumor' that
Cochran was being paid to support Nc
Kinley, as authority for his statement.
Mr.. Cochran denied in Il most positive
manner that he had received any mon
ey from the Republican party or from
any other source for his support of Nc
Kinley and went on to point out the
strange position of Mr.. DalZell when
he accused his own party of bribery.
But that was not all. He took the DO
sition, "If the charges Of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania are true, then l
am not fit to be member of this house
and if they are false, he is not fit to
be q member" Mr.. Cochran then in