Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-18
Scraps aud faets.


truth, says a Washington dispatch,
speculation has been busy as to what
measures the executive will take to
"get even" The least that could
happen to Chandler, gossip records,
would be his official beheading as
president of the Spanish claims COM
mission. Mr.. Chambers job is at the
absolute mercy Of the president.
The president could remove him, but
1t is understood that he will not re-
venge himself in this way. Perhaps
he would do so If his arch enemy had
a long tenure of office, and there are
only three and a half months longer
for the commission to serve. 1t Is
hinted that Mr.. Chandler might well
come the removal as it would give
him an opportunity to be more out
spoken.
- Cardiff, Wales, May 16: An epi-
demic Of measles in Wales last year
that carried off 130 children has
caused DR.. Alexander Gordon, the
medical officer Of health for Merthyr,
to protest against the practice OF al
lowing children to enter infected
households. Superstition is even
more rife in all classes today than
II, was a hundred years ago." he said.
I'm no case Is 1t more prevalent and
disastrous than in the treatment OF
measles. The medical profession has
tried in vain to stamp out the old
idea that every child must have
measles, and that child, therefore,
might as we'll be put into the same
bed with a brother or sister who Is |
suffering from the complaint. 1t Is
a proceeding which ought to be made
punishable by law. Hundreds Of lives
are sacrificed every year to 1t, and cpl |
denies are spread from village to
Village by reason Of the absurd notion"
The specialist spoke Of other super
stitions that still prevail among ig-
norant people. 1.-THE standard cure
for a cut finger is still the dirty cob
web" he said. Lives are yearly |
sacrificed to septic poisoning traced
10 InlS unSanlIdTy TeIIleuy.
The rather platitudinous address
of the czar of Russia to the Duma, |
the recently assembled Russian parlia-
ment, is not to be answered altogether
In the same strain. The Duma is af-
ter something tangible. 1t does not
propose to be a figurehead, or to be
used as a make believe. 1t wants |
power to assure to the people liberty.
The work Of preparing a reply was
turned over to a commission and that
commission has reported back paper |
that contains no less than ten very i'm |
portant and essential demands as fol- |
lows: General amnesty; abolition Of
the death penalty; suspension Of mar
tial law and all exceptional laws; full
civic liberty; abolition Of council OF
empire; revision OF fundamental laws; |
the establishment Of the responsibility |
of ministers; the right of interpella-
tion; forced appropriation of land;
guarantees Of the rights Of trades un-
IONS" The more radical members of
the Duma consider this reply to- mild
by far; but the bureaucracy consid- |
ers 1t absurd, and is advising the car
to submit to nothing Of the kind. The
situation is very critical. To dissolve
the Duma without consideration of
its demands will mean revolution.
The mystery Of the fate of Father
Gapon, says a st. Petersburg dispatch,
apparently was cleared up Sunday by
the discovery Of a corpse which was
amost positively identified as that of
the former priest, hanging in the up
per chamber of a lonely villa in the
suburb of Onerki, Finland. The villa
was rented April for the summer
and a deposit paid by an unknown
man from st. Petersburg, who, after
visiting the house several times in
company with a young workman,
disappeared April IL, taking the key
with him. The proprietor Of the
villa alarmed at the non-appearance
of the tenant, notified the police, who
entered the house. Breaking down a
door they were confronted by body
in a long coat hanging from nail'
the feet touching the floor. Decom-
position Of the face made positive
Identification difficult, but the fea-
lures resembled those of Gapon, and
the clothing corresponded with that
worn by the missing labor leader. AS
the usual symptoms of strangulation
were absent, it Is conjectured that
the man was killed elsewhere and his
body brought to the villa on the night
Of April 10. This would agree with
the date of the execution Of Gapon
given In the information Of the Sc
cret police and with the death sem
tence Of the former priest as an
nounced in recent dispatches from
Berlin.
Senator Bailey rose to question
of personal privilege in the senate In
order to make a reply to the charge
made in the Chicago Tribune and the
New York Tribune by a Washington
correspondent to the effect that he,
Bailey, had been responsible for the
failure Of agreement between the pres
ident and Senator Tillman. Former
Senator Chandler was given as au-
thority for the statement that Senator
Tillman had BEEN suspicious of Mr..
Bailey, who it was also stated was
really opposed to rate legislation, and
was also In constant conference with
Senator Aldrich, with the purpose Of
defeating the rate bill. After this
statement had been read Mr.. Bailey
took the floor and said deliberately: L
have taken no part in the question OF
veracity between the president and
Mr.. Chandler and had not even given
any public expressions on the question
Of good faith, because l knew nothing
about either question. had never
conferred with the president directly
or indirectly nor with Mr. Chandler.
1t was therefore matter of great sur
prise to me when a senator called my
attention to the extract which l have
nao5 That tho corraSnnn6eDcp II was