Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-04
Scraps and fatts.

1anIS QleO IN the Ouilcu oldlSS iaSS
year from the effects Of food poison
ing. This claim was made by j. N.
Hurry, secretary Of the Indiana state
board Of health. Hurry produces fig
ures to show that IS per cent Of the
total deaths Of infants in America
last year was due to poisons admins
tered in impure foods and deadly con-
coctions placed on the market by
fraudulent food manufacturers. Re
newed efforts toward prohibiting the
sale Of food products containing
poisonous authorizations is to be made
by the association.
A German court has just rendered
a decision in a most interesting case.
Some time ago, while woman, ac-
companied by a male escort was eat
ing oysters in a German restaurant,
she found large pearl In her mouth.
1t had been served with the oysters.
Its value was afterward ascertained
to be $3.50. The proprietor Of the res
taurant claimed the pearl as his prop
erty, but the woman's escort main
tanned that 1t belonged to her. The
issue was taken to law and the decis-
ion of the court is that the pearl be-
longs to the party who paid for the
oysters. The court reasoned that II
It should uphold the claim Of the res
taurant man, ownership would go
back to the man from whom he
bought the oysters, and from him
back to the fisherman who made the
original catch. BY holding, however,
that the fisherman parted with his
claim to the pearl when he sold his
oysters to the dealer and the dealer
parted with his claim to the restau-
rant man. 1t followed naturally that
the pearl went to the man who paid
for the woman's oysters. q.
There was another warm confer
ence between the Alexander and Hyde
factions of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society In New York last Satur-
day. The conference lasted all day
until after night before anything like
an agreement was arrived at. The
conference was between what Is
known as the Crimmins Policy Hold
ers' committee on the one hand and
representatives Of MI. Hyde on the
other The issue was the immediate
naturalization OF the Equitable. The
Crimmins committee held that If the
naturalization were postponed two
years in accordance with Mr.. Hyde's
recent proposition, that gentleman,
holding a predominating influence in
the meantime by virtue Of his major
ity of stock, could make himself solid
with q sufficient number Of policy
holders to insure his continued con-
troll Of the society. Hyde denied that
he had exercised any undue authority,
etc. The conferees finally reached an
agreement as the result Of which the
policy holders are to elect majority
Of the directors after two years. The
Crimmins committee claims that there
Is no danger in this arrangement In
that the time Is too short to allow
Mr.. Hyde to make himself solid with
the policy holders. President Aexan-
der who opposes Hyde, has not said
whether or not he Is satisfied. Hyde
has asked the insurance commissioner
Of New York to investigate his official
acts.
Says a Rome cable of April 2: The
Simplon tunnel, the longest in the
world, was inaugurated this morning,
when from the Swiss and italian sides
the first trains passed through, meet
ing at the centre, where there was the
iron door which originally prevented
the overflow of torrent Of hot water,
and which today was opened for the
first time. The weather at the en-
trance to the tunnel was spring like,
though the surrounding mountains
were covered with snow; but once in
side, the temperature became very
high. Engineer Brandau, who had d.
rected the work on the tunnel, con-
Quoted the Italian train, which part of
the way was lighted by miners with
lanterns. The train from the italian
end was the first to reach the iron
door, but a little later the train from
the Swiss end was heard on the other
side Of the door. There was brief
time spent in communicating through
the door by means Of hammering and
finally the door was knocked down
amidst frantic applause and cries Of
Long Live Switzerland" and Long
Live Italy!" Bands played the italian
royal march and the Swiss anthem,
and the two parties embraced and
kissed each other. Engineer Brandau
shook hands with Engineer Rose
mund, the director Of the work on the
Swiss side, and the Italian bishop, No
veara, embraced the Swiss bishop
Sion. The latter then preached a
short sermon, In the course Of which
he said, 1.-The church blesses prog
ress." In the name of God he blessed
the tunnel.
Golfers for April says: Govern
rnent as disgraceful as that enjoyed
by the state Of Colorado Is not often
contemplated by countries which the
world calls civilized. The constitution
Vi Tic OullcO SldlSo buehi W ehS
people Of each state republican form
of government. 1t need not be repub-
lican in substance. There Is Pennsyl-
vania, for example. But the form must
be preserved. In Colorado not only Is
the will of the people despised, but
the mere pretence OF popular liberty
was abandoned when strikers were
seized by soldiers in the service OF
mine owners and taken out Of the
state by violence, without any cloak
of law. without even the most per-
functory trial, the courts being told to
60 to the devil by the combination OF
which the elements were the governor,
the mine owners and the soldiers.
The people submitted, puzzled by the
balancing evil on the other side. but
they expressed their disapproval by
defeating Peabody for governor. There
may be a few Republicans who be-
lieve Peabody was reelected on an
honest count, but we doubt If there are
a dozen in the state. Some Repub-
lican naners and some Republican