Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-19
Straps and faets,


Atlanta and Augusta last Saturday,
and it ended in blows. Watson was on
a sleeping car, and was annoyed by
the slow time made by the train and
by what he termed the lack Of cour-
tesy shown him by the road officials.
He and the conductor disputed, and
the porter took the conductors side.
Watson hit the porter in the face with
his grip, and there was an encounter
between Watson, his friends, the con-
ductor, and the negro. While the fight
was in progress the train was stopped.
Passengers put an end to the trouble.
Watson and the others had some
bruises from the fray.
st. Paul.. MINI, April 16: A bandit
held up the Northern Express Com
pany's Union depot office tonight and
compelled the clerk TO open the safe
and give him a package containing
$25,O00.' The robber escaped. About
half past 10, young man who is be-
lieved to have been a confederate OF
the robber, called at the express office
and by some pretext managed to get
one of the clerks out of the oftice.
Fred Zimmerman, the other clerk, soon
afterwards found himself confronted
by a masked robber who pointed a
pistol at his head. Hands up" COM
manded the bandit, and Zimmerman
complied. The robber then command
ed Zimmerman to open the safe. The
clerk obeyed the order without hesi-
tation. The bandit seemed to know
what he was after, for he told Zim-
norman to hand out the package Of
currency which was to go to Duluth
on the midnight train. Zimmerman
handed out the bulky envelope which
the robber thrust into his coat pocket.
He then backed out of the office.
The following clipping from the
Baltimore Sun will be of interest to
Mexican war veterans and their
friends living in South Carolina: The
jamestown exposition has assigned
August 23 as Mexican War Veterans
Day and has offered the use Of the ex-
position auditorium or convention
hall The National Association Of
Veterans of the Mexican war will
meet there. There will be present vet
Grams from many states, although the
average age is now eighty-six years.
The reunion will be notable, being a
gathering of such old men to meet
their comrades in all probability for
the last time, to recall the incidents
of the campaign Of sixty years ago.
In the army that went to Mexico
about $4,000 men, regulars and volun-
teers-there are now only about 5000
who survive, and those who are able
will no doubt make an effort to be in
attendance at the reunion. Col. Louis
F. Beeler of Baltimore, president Of the
National Association of Veterans Of
the Mexican War, has received an in
vitation to be present at the opening
of the exposition April 26, and will at
tend, and while there will arrange for
the reunion on August 23.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
on the warpath against food manufac-
turers advertising that the Federal
government guarantees the purity Of
their products. Such statements as
that after January l, 1907, the United
States government protects you by an
official serial number that you may
easily recognize, and other statements
of a similar character, must be stopped
at once" declared Secretary Wilson
with vigor, "or l will do little ad-
vertising myself on behalf Of the peo-
pie. am growing tired Of seeing
these untruthful statements on the
advertising pages Of the magazines,
the walls of the New York subway and
the advertising spaces of the street
cars Of the principal cities" Secretary
Wilson said the continuation of this
practice would cause the department
to publish the names Of all food man
ufacturers who thus attempt to de-
ceive the public. The serial number
and the statement that the food or
drug is guaranteed under the food and
drug act of June 80, 1906, do not mean
that the United States government
guarantees the purity of the article.
On the contrary the statement means
that the manufacturer of the article
guarantees it to be pure. 1t is the
guarantee Of the manufacturer, not
the guarantee Of the government.
"A bill that will prevent expert tes-
timony of alienists in all murder trials
where insanity is pleaded as defense,
says an Albany, N. Y, dispatch, has
been introduced by Assemblyman
Moreland. The bill also prevents hy-
pothetical questions being asked in
any criminal case where insanity is
a defense. Mr.. Moreland says the idea
is to do away with the experts, who
usually receive enormous fees for CIV
ing their professional opinion and tes-
tify as the side which retains them
wishes. Under the present CODE" he
says, "a person engaged as an ex-
pert witness need not even have seen
the person on trial to give testimony.
The lawyer can ask a hypothetical
question and the expert witness can
render his opinion as to whether or
not, in view of the instances related in
the question, the ~erson was insane or
not insane, the answer depending upon
which side asks the question. My
bill will confine the testimony in re-
gard to insanity to persons who are
personally acquainted or who have
personally observed the accused at
times when he was supposed to be
normal. There is nothing to prevent
a person testifying to having observed
acts that he regarded as showing mem
tai unbalance years back but the bill
will prohibit an alienist from going
on the stand and swearing that per-
son is insane or not insane without
having made an examination of the
accused"
New York Press: Owing to the
enormous advance in the price of
lumber, and more particularly of pine,