Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-11
Straps and facts.

He was sentenced to pay fine or
$500 and to go to prison for one year.
The bribe was offered to a govern
ment officer.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury Reynolds was licked out at the
hands of a show man recently. The
Snowman imported four elephants and
declared their value at $4,000. The
appraisers put the value of the ami
mails at $4,000 and the government con-
fiscated them on account Of the under
valuation. Pending further investi-
CATION the feeding Of the elephants be-
came a problem, and the assistant
treasurer finally decided to turn them
back into the hands of the show man.
- Another wreck occurred last Sat
urday morning in the yards of the
Southern railway at Danville, Va, re-
sulting in the instant death Of two
men and the injuring Of a number OF
others, one of whom will die. The
dead are: George c. Kinney Of Thom-
asville, N. c., was the engineer. Un-
known man, probably tramp, whose
body was mangled and burned beyond
recognition. Train No. "a crashed
into a freight train standing on the
track. Fire broke out in the freight
wreck, but was soon brought under
control by the Danville fire depart
ment. Four freight cars were burned.
Ford, the negro fireman, will probably
die. The names Of the other injured
have not been secured, but included
postal clerks on "a and a number OF
passengers, who were shaken and
bruised but are not considered as being
serious. No. "a is opposite No. SO, on
which President Spencer was recently
killed near Lynchburg. Engineer Kin
ney was a brother of the engineer on
the train which ran into President
Spencer's car and who had a remark
able escape from death.
The secretary Of the treasury has
issued the following open letter to the
banking institutions of the country:
"A very marked scarcity Of small bills
Is noticeable everywhere and the treas
ury Is powerless to relieve. In the
absence of legislation allowing nation
al banks to issue large proportion OF
their circulation in denominations OF
IS, the banks themselves must be re-
lied upon to alleviate the strain as
Tar as possible. There are in circula-
tion nearly $15,00O,000 in silver certif-
icates of the denomination Of $40.
Many of these are doubtless packed
away in the vaults Of various banking
institutions and held as reserve. Per-
nit me respectively to ask that each
institution, state and national, search
the money In it's vaults and send these
$40 silver certificates to the treasury.
They will be promptly converted into
ones and twos to the very great relief
of the country. 1t is the only remedy.
Let no bank complain of conditions
until it has literally searched its own
vaults and contributed as far as pos
sible to the relief of the situation"
- Philadelphia Record: The last Of
the unidentified portraits Of Revolu-
tionary heroes. which hang in lnde-
pendence Hall was a few days ago,
after nearly six years of anxious
work, proved to be that Of a South
Carolina captain by the name Of
William Smith. Smiths chief claim
to distinction lies in tho foct that, ol
though but eighteen years Of age at
the outbreak Of the Revolution he
promptly organized a company and
joined with body Of Georgian troops
in making a successful attack against
the British garrison at Fort Anderson.
The picture was one Of many painted
by James Sharpless, the English por-
city about 1894. The youthful ap-
pearance Of the subject was the most
puzzling feature, as it was supposed
that all the sitters to the artist were
old men. The Identification was A.
nally accomplished through an engrav-
ing made Of Captain Smith about 1910
by Savage. Once the. name had been
secured 1t was comparatively easy to
trace the career Of the distinguished
southerner, and the years of search
have at last been fully rewarded. The
portrait was properly tagged.
Marion, N. c., special of December
8, to Charlotte Observer. The explo-
sion of two cases Of dynamite in one
of the tunnels on the construction
work Of the South and Western rail-
way Friday night, resulting in the
death OF one white man, five negroes
and one Indian and serious injury
to seven others, deserves more than
a passing notice. The explosion oc-
CURED about two hundred feet from
the point of the tunnel and about the
same distance from the end where the
air drills were being operated. One
Of the men was ordered to open up
the dynamite and while hammering
the lid of one of the cases it suddenly
exploded with terrific results. The
men working on a horizontal line with
the explosion were all killed and hor-
ribly mangled. Only a few small frag-
ments of the man who caused the ex-
plosion were found. One man was
hurled entirely out of the tunnel.
Those working above a horizontal
with the explosive were not killed, but
were injured. some severely. Every
man in the tunnel was more or less
injured. mule standing hitched to
a car near the explosion was blown,
with the car. through the portal Of
the tunnel, and down the side of the
mountain. The car was complete
wreck. but the mule came out with
out a scratch and after disentangling
itself from the wreck returned to the
tunnel, but after shifting the odor of
the explosion and viewing the scene
OF death for a few minutes kicked up
its heels and made a bee line for the
stable. The Indian was sent last night
to Whittier for interment.
- Secretary Hester's weekly cotton
statement issued last Friday shows: