Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-29
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the street and in some accidental man.
ner a wire charged with electricity OF
high voltage was thrown across the
wire which furnished electricity for
the clippers.
Charlotte Observer, Thursday:
Desk Sergeant Duke was busily en-
gagged yesterday in addressing and
mailing a huge stack Of envelopes con-
tanning circulars descriptive Of Franc
H, Jones, the defaulting bank teller.
The folder contains the announcement
of the bank officials Of a reward OF
$1,000 for his detention until an officer
can reach him with the papers. In
addition to this the bank offers 10 per
cent of all the embezzled funds found
upon his person. This may swell the
total amount by $4,000 to $4,000. Two
hundred and fifty copies of the papers
are being sent to all the large cities In
every section of the United States,
near and remote. A picture Of the
teller, with a minute description of his
physical peculiarities is Of course
given.
The agrarian revolt which has been
in progress in Roumania for the past
ten days or more has assumed such
proportions as to be beyond control OF
the government forces now engaged in
trying to end the revolt, and the Rou-
manian parliament is considering the
advisability of investing the govern
ment with extraordinary powers to
handle the situation. The peasants
are engaged in incendiarism and pill
Laying in every direction and property
is destroyed in every way possible.
There have been numerous serious
conflicts between the peasants and SOL
diers, notably at Bacess, in the district
of Vaslui, where 1000 peasants armed
with revolyers and rifles attacked a
company of soldiers. The troops fired
on the peasants killing forty, but had
to flee because of being greatly out
numbered. In the district Of Alexan-
dria, several villages have been pill
laged and burned. It Is reported thai
an army Of 10000 or $4,000 peasants
is ready to attack Jassy the ,princi-
pal city of Moldaria. In many Of the
districts the soldiery is fraternizing
with the revolving peasants.
New York, March 26: Justice Fftz-
gerald today named commission IN
lunacy to inquire into the present state
of mind Of Harry Thaw. The deci-
sion of the three commissioners will
guide the future action of the court,
as to ordering Thaw to an asylum for
the insane, or directing the trial to
proceed. The members of this COM
mission are: Morgan ]. O'Brien, for
mer justice of the Appellate division
Of the supreme court; Peter B. Olney,
former district attorney Of New York
county, and a prominent lawyer; Leo
pold Putzel, a physician and an au-
thority on mental diseases. At the
announcement in the judges cham
bers, young Mrs. Thaw, with the at
torneys for the defense, was present,
hut she was elected to break the news
TO her husband. She left the judges
presence in tears but was smiling when
she told Thaw. He received the deci-
sion stoically and said he had no doubt
the commission would declare him
sane. No date is yet fixed for the
with the commission whether the hear
ing be public, but they will be attend
ed by District Attorney Jerome and
counsel for the defense. Thaw will
first be ordered to undergo a rigid
physical examination. This he will
willingly agree to.
With a view of maintaining rural
delivery boxes at such a standard
as will afford proper protection Of
the mails, and insure boxes Of being
sufficiently durable to warrant their
purchase by patrons, a special COM
mittee was recently appointed by the
postmaster general to examine boxes
which had been forwarded to the Of
flee of the fourth assistant post
master general for that purpose.
Out Of sixty-five boxes examined by
the committee up to this time, thir-
ty-six have been found that do not
fully comply with the regulations
and the manufacturers Of such boxes
have been notified that such defects
must be remedied in all new pro-
ducts placed on the market after
June 80, 1907. Many Of the defects
noted were considered unimportant
by the manufacturers, but from the
patrons point Of view were such as
to impair the durability of the boxes.
Other defects, such as raw and un-
finished edges, we're the cause Of
many complaints from rural carriers
whose hands became lacerated in de-
posting and removing mail matter,
and considering the necessity for eX-
peditious work on the part of the
carriers, such defects are deemed de-
trimental to the service. There are
now upward of 800 styles of approx
ed boxes for rural delivery service
on the market, at prices ranging
from so cents upward.
- Under the direction of the pres
ident, says a Washington dispatch,
all departments of the government
are waging war against the biggest
game they can find. The interstate
commerce commission is after the
Hartman and Hill interests in rail-
roading, the bureau of corporations
is after the Standard Oil company
for taking rebates, the interior de-
partment is after the biggest game
it can scare up in the land fraud
cases, including the railroads; the
postoffice department is preparing
to attack the railroads on their mail
contracts, the agricultural depart
ment is on the trail of the packers
and food manufacturers in the in
forcement of the pure food law,
which they can not ship as inter-
state commerce unless properly lab
elled, and so on down the line. In
this fight the activities of all depart
ments pale into insignificance before
the onslaught of the interstate COM