Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-22
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ors' homes, including those able to
enter those returning home alter
discharge under arrangements with
the boards of managers or salu
homes The fact that ex-Confederate
soldiers are included among those TO
whom railroads may issue free trans
portation is notable. Does II mean
to emphasize the death of sectional
ism, or was the provision inserted TO
please the southern senators whose
votes may be needed in the rate Dill
"A large section of northern Mich
igan, bordering on the lakes has just
been swept by terrible forest fires
that have devastated areas aggregat- l.
ing more than a hundred square
miles. The fire originated in differ
ent places, one from the burning OF
debris accumulated by gang OF
stump pullers and another in lum-
Der camp. Famed by strong winds
blowing at the rate of thirty or forty
miles an hour, they devoured every
thing in their path including hum
dreds of isolated houses, lumber
plants and several flourishing VII
lagos. The reports have II that
number of people were burned TO
death. People of experience saved
themselves by digging trenches In the
ground and covered themselves over
with wet blankets. Horses and cattle
were turned loose and allowed 10 run
for it; but many were burned to death
The property loss foots up more than
a million dollars.
- Says a Washington special of May
IS: Speaker Cannons preslaential
boom will be formerly launched In
the White House in about two weeks
A distinguished member of the Re-
publican side is now preparing
speech that he will deliver on the
house floor and declare for Speaker
Cannon for the 1908 nomination. He
will argue from examples OF such
men as Bismarck and Gladstone that
because Speaker Cannon is over sew
enty is no reason why he should De
considered unavailable. A great
house demonstration is expected to
follow. 1t is believed Speaker Can
mons friends have come to the con-
clusion, in view of present wholesale
attacks on the Roosevelt administra-
ton, that now Is a good time to start
the Cannon movement, 1t being reck-
oned that neither will the president
run again nor that any one of his
cabinet will prove as formidable as
has been expected.
A twenty-five cent COW bell caus-
ed the Creek nation to lose strip or
land which is now worth $lOO,OOO,
according to an old Creek story
which Is often told in the Canadian
district of the Cherokee nation. This
is the district in which are now locat-
ed Forum and Russell, two thriving
towns. The story runs this way: The
boundary between the Creek and
Cherokee nations had never been def
initely located, so government COM
. missioners were sent out to locate the
disputed boundary line. A council or
the Creeks and Cherokees was called
and the day set when the matter was
to be decided. The Creeks wanted
for their eastern boundary the west
ern banks of the Arkansas river, and
Boley Mcintosh, then chief, was a
powerful man, and it was expected
that he would get what he wanted,
though the Cherokees wanted the
line to be fixed so that the rich Cana
dian district would be theirs. In
these days the Indians had cheap COW
bells on their ponies so that when the
horses strayed they could be found
The night before the council the pony
belonging to Chief Mcintosh came in
without it's bell. The next day he
worried about the bell and finally set
out to find IT, He forgot all about the
council of the tribes and when he
finally came in the matter had been
settled and the Cherokees had won.
The search for the COW bell had cost
the Creeks the rich Canadian dis
trict.
Washington, May IS: Reminis-
cent Of the stressful days of the forty
seventh congress were the scenes in
and about the house today. Hardly
had the journal of the house been
approved when the Democrats, under
the leadership of Mr.. Williams OF
Mississippi, began the first real fill
buster in that body for number OF
years, their object being to defeat the
bill paving to the estate of Samuel
Lee of South Carolina, $1O,4S2 for al
lowances made by reason of the cleo
ton of Lee, a negro contestant for a
seat in the forty-seventh congress.
The bill has been reported favorably
at nine congreSses-SiX times by Re-
publicans and three times by Demo-
ocrats. The certificate of election,
which Lee contested, was given TO
John S. Richardson. The committee
on elections reported in favor of Lee.
A vote was taken on the resolution
to give him the seat held by Richard
son, 124 voting in favor of the reso-
luton and ia against. Lees con-
tests progressed no further. The
Democrats began a noted filibuSter,
and the forty-seventh congress died
by operation of law without quo
rum being present. Today's flibuster
followed along similar lines, Mr.. Will
liams resorted to every known parla-
mentary tactics TO encompass the de-
feat of the measure. There were
numberless roll calls and still more
divisions demanded and taken and the
curtain was finally running down on
the scenes whose beginning go back
twenty-six years The bill was fl
nally passed.
Norfolk, Va, May 10: Irwin
Tucker, president of the Savings
Bank of Newport News, committed
suicide over the bank i'm his room
today, just as the police were about
to arrest him on a warrant charging
him with defaulting in the sum of
$4,000. Tucker heard Chief Rey-
nolds ask a negro porter on the out
side as to the location of his room
and standing in front of a mirror, put
a bullet through his right temple, as
the door was thrown open. The
doors of the savings bank have been
closed pending an investigation,
which is now being made by the
board of directors. The first suspi-
cion that Tucker was defaulter was
received this morning in a note writ
ten by the suicide himself. This note
was found shortly after the doors Of
the bank were opened today, it hav-
ing been placed on the desk of Cash
Ter Perkins. Tucker admitted that he
was short in his accounts and said
that II any attempt was made to ar
rest him he would commit suicide.
Immediately the directors of the bank
were called together and a hurried ex-
animation resulted i'm the warrant.
An examination of the safety de-
posit vault in the savings bank reveal
ed the fact that fuckers life was in
sured for $50. 900, which will cover all
his alleged defalcatiOnS. The Savings
Rank of Newport News was largely
patronized by the labOring classes of
Newport News. President Tucker
was about forty years old. He was
the son of former Mayor John :.
Tucker of Norfolk, now a retired
lawyer of Washington, ID. G. Mr..
Tucker was formerly city editor of the
old Norfolk Virginian, and was post
master of Newport News under the
Cleveland administration.
After seventy days of almost con-
tinuous deliberation, the senate fl
nally late last Friday afternoon.
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