Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-23
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his home in critical condition. Owing
to Wards alleged cruelty to his wife,
she had been removed to a neighbor's s
house by friends, where she died Of
consumption. Ward allowed no re-
ligious exercises over the body, it is
said, and when returning from the
funeral in a solitary buggy he was at
tackled by a number of women of the
community armed with whips, who
tered. In a suit for divorce Mrs. Ward
had charged her husband with driving
her from the bed while suffering from
consumption and compelling her to
water the stock.
Charlotte Chronicle: Governor
Glenn was given a reception by the
North Carolina society in Baltimore
Thursday, and later delivered a lee
ture on temperance, in the course Of
which he declared that he would rath-
er go back to the farm on Dan river,
live in seclusion and die in oblivion
than to occupy the highest office in
the gift of the people if it depended
on ceasing the fight against intemper-
ance. Speaking Of prohibition condi-
tions in North Carolina, he said: "Lo-
cal option is in force in seventy out OF
ninety seven counties, and in several
OF the western counties the dispensary
system prevails. The main trouble is
that whisky is shipped in from other
states by hundreds Of barrels. But
we are going to put stop to that in
pretty short order" The clubs are
likely to prick up their ears at the in
formation contained in the closing
sentence. 1t would be interesting to
know the plans of the governor to
stop the leak.
A bill which is designated the
Patents and Designs bill, introduced
in the British house Of commons and
passed unanimously to its second
reading, is aimed directly a. American
machinery manufacturers and is in
tended to put stop to large part
of the importations of American made
machinery into England. 1t has been
the custom of American inventors TO
have their inventions patented in Ems
land as we'll as in the United states,
then have their machines or wha.ever
their invention might be, made in this
country and exported to England. The
patents and designs bill provides that
after three years a patent may be
revoked on a petition showing that the
manufacture of the article is carried
on mainly outside of England, unless
the patentee gives most satisfactory
reasons" as to why the article is not
manufactured on British soil. AL
most every kind Of American machin-
cry is sold and protected in England
under patents of that country.
- Scientists whose attention has
been directed to the rapid succession
of earthquakes in Mexico, Spain, Eas-
tern South America, and even in Char
lesion, says a New York dispatch, ex-
plain that the earth is undergoing a
period of unusual instability. One set
of scientists believe that a universal
disaster is imminent while the oth-
er group fears no such calamity,
although agreeing that future slight
seismic disturbances are possible.
DIR. John NJ. Clark, state geolo-
gist, says the entire Atlantic coast Is
by no means safe, although he admits
that the shocks generally follow the
mountain ranges of the Pacific. Rec
ords show that since December third,
there have been twenty-six earth
quakes, added to these disasters and
in the same period several hurricanes
have occurred. A typhoon on Good
Friday swept over the Caroline islands
killing 2SO out Of the 5000 inhabi-
tants. The Gulf Of Mexico recently was
turned into boiling pot" During the
Mexican earthquake the steamer La
Provence, which arrived from Europe
to-day, encountered a weird electrical
hurricane attributed to seismic dis
turbances.
Mrs. Donald Mclean was last week
reelected president general of the
Daughters of the American revolution.
The other officers are as follows: Vice
Charlotte Emerson, Maine; vice pres
idents general, Mrs. ]. Morgan Smith,
Alabama; Mrs. H. S. Chamberlain,
Tennessee; Mrs. Alexander E. Patton,
Pennsylvania; Mrs. Charles H. Deere,
Illinois; Mrs. A. E. Kendall, Maine;
Mrs. Charles H. Terry, New York;
Mrs. Wallace Delafield, Missouri; Mrs.
Lindsay Patterson, North Carolina;
Mrs. B. d. Spilman, West Virginia.;
Mrs. Eleanor Spencer Massey, District
of Columbia; chaplain general, Mrs.
Esther F. Noble, District of Columbia;
recording secretary general, Miss Eliz-
abeth F. Pierce, District of Columbia;
corresponding secretary general, Mrs.
John Paul Ernest District Of Colum-
bia; registrar general. Mrs. Amos G.
Draper, District of Columbia; treasur-
er general, Mrs. Mabel G. Swormstedt,
District of Columbia; historian gen.
eral, Mrs. ]. Eakin Gadsby, District
of Columbia; assistant historian gen.
eral, Mrs. Henry S. Bowen, New York;
librarian general, Mrs. Helen NJ. Boyn-
ton, District of Columbia.
-Thos. NJ. Huntington and Fred
Hoyt, bankers of Gordon, Neb., and
Amzi Todd of Denver, Col, have been
convicted in the Federal court at
Omaha, Neb., on charges of conspir-
acy to defraud the government OF
about a half million acres of public
lands. The fight against the land
grabbers" has been going on in the
several western states for several
months past and has resulted in
large number of convictions. The
scheme of the land grabbers' is
simple one and has been worked very
successfully for years. 1t is worked
like this: A company is formed with
ample capital to finance the steal.
Then homesteaders are sought to file
claims on homesteads on government