Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-10-20
Scraps and fafts.

William r. Hearst for accepting
nomination for the mayoralty OF New
York outside the party. 1t Is urged
that this step is necessary to preserve
party discipline.
The insurance commissioner OF
Nevada has issued an order revoking
the license Of the New York Life In
surance company to do business In the
state. The order went into effect last
Wednesday and is to hold good so long
as Messrs. Mccall and Perkins con-
tinue officers Of the company.
Rear Admiral Rixey, surgeon gen.
eral of the navy, is accompanying the
president on his southern trip ana
will do everything he possibly can TO
mind of the mosquitoes, especially al
ter the party gets into the yellow re-
yer district. When in New Orleans the
president will be exposed for a time
while he is riding through the streets.
He will be in an open carriage during
the parade or drive, but this Will occur
in the daytime and the danger OF being
bitten by a mosquito Is very small. In
his hotel the rooms Of the president
will be carefully screened and fum-
gated by the health authorities. DR..
Rixey and the other surgeons In New
Orleans will carefully inspect the
rooms before the president Is allowed
TO occupy them. The train windows
will be carefully screened, and every
precaution will be taken to prevent the
entrance Of disease bearing insects
while the train is in the yellow feVer
zone.
Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 1s: Hotel
men of this resort are rather wary
now of titled foreigners, and every
one who prefixes his name with
foreign title is regarded with suspic-
ion. At present there are two titled
foreigners in the county Jail awaiting
trial for alleged doing" Of hotel pro-
prietors out of a board bill OF .several
hundred dollars each, one a count
and the other a baron" and during
the early part Of this week a "nar-
auis" suddenly left his stopping place
and later telegraphed from New YORK
for his grip-a handsome affair that
was worth more than the price OF his
half weeks board bin. We has not
vet gotten the handbag. With such
experiences the hotel men are rather
shy of taking any guests, With titles
unless there be a sufficient amount OF
baggage In sight that might be seized
for any bill Of medium amount.
A tornado struck the village of So
rento, Ill, 80 miles northwest OF ST.
Louis. last Wednesday night. killing
eight persons, injuring IS Others OF
whom three will probably die and do
ing a great amount of damage to prop
erty. Forty houses were blown TO
atoms or carried from their founda-
tions. A complete swath was cut
through the town. Everything In the
track Of the tornado was reduced to
debris or blown away. The storm ap-
preached from the southwest and
swept through the main residence por-
ton Of the town. The work OF the
wind was quickly done and then fol-
lowed q heavy downpour OF rain, ac-
companied by vivid lightning and deep
thunder. Those who escaped injury
were for the time panic-stricken, but
finally rallied and set to work to rescue
the injured. So violent was the tor
nado that some Of the residences were
swept away completely and the debris
effectually scattered Houses that re-
manned standing were converted into
temporary hospitals.
- Gerald Mccarthy, the biologist or
the North Carolina department OF
agriculture, has recently received sew
eral specimens Of a very hairy caterpil-
lar which resembles a snail rather
than an ordinary leaf-eating worm,
He says Of 1t: "This creature Is thick
ly covered with long yellowish hairs
causing It to resemble somewhat a
piece of heavy flannel, hence the COM
mon name. The worm does not eat
flannels. It eats the leaves Of the oak
and other shade trees and also occurs
upon rose bushes. In Florida, where
this worm is more common, 1t infests
the orange tree. In North Carolina
the worm Is not abundant enough TO
do serious damage to trees, but when
It infests trees or shrubs in door yards
people are liable to get stung by the
sharp and poisonous hairs Of the
creature. Several Of our correspond
ents have reported that those incau-
tiously handling the worm have had
their hands and arms badly infiamed
and swollen. The best remedy for the
sting Of this worm Is oil of turpentine
we'll rubbed into the inflamed parts. A
mixture Of Oil of myrrh, 10 parts and
laudanum. one part, is also .{eftifie9t>
The worms can be destroyed bNfdustV,
ing the foliage on which they feed with
a powder composed Of one part paris
green and ten parts air-slaked lime"
The Carnegie hero fund commits
sion, according to a Pittsburg, Pa,
dispatch, made public last Monday
evening the result of its investigation
Of q large number Of cases which were
supposed to entitle the participants to
recognition, under the hero fund pro-
vided by Andrew Carnegie several
years ago. Ten awards were made for
heroes In widely separated parts OF
this country and Canada. Among
them the following: Wade H. Plum
mer, aged Is, on May 7. 1904, on Lynch's
river near Lamar, s. c., saved COM
panion. John M. Gibson aged 19, from
drowning after a desperate struggle.
The commission awarded him silver
medal and $500 to be devoted to edu-
cational purposes. Mrs. Sadie L.
Crabbe, aged 35. of Coopers Landing,
Va, lost her life on February IL, 1905,
while attempting to save from drown
ing Ralph Young colored, aged 19, a
laborer. Mrs. Crabbe Is survived by
her husband, Charles. a son aged nine,
and three small daughters. The family
is very poor The commission award
ed a bronze medal and appropriated
$1,000 to be expended by the executive
committee as 1t thinks best for the
children. Miss Anna Margaret Cum