Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-09
Straps aud faets.

tract attention to the "clean city
movement. 1t offered Trenton boys
25 cents hundred for all old tin cans
delivered to the committee yesterday.
The cans were received at place In
the business section, and for hours the
street were jammed with boys, cans,
and spectators. One hundred and thirty
boys brought in more than $4,000 cans
and received nearly 5000 in payment.
Clubs in other towns have shown
disposition to try the plan, which was
an unqualified success.
Reports received by the Chicago
Tribune up to midnight last Friday
show the number of deaths due to ex-
cess Of patriotism throughout the
country on July 4th, to be forty-hve,
and the number of seriously injured 10
be 2.64O. The total fire loss is esti-
mated at 100000. At that hour the
roster of the dead was twelve more
than was last years mortality. A year
ago thirty three persons were reported
dead on the day following the Fourth,
not including three drowned. From
now on the death roll may be expected
to increase day by day, the late re-
turns giving tetanus as the cause OF
death In many cases. This has been
the experience in past years, when re-
suits have been tabulated. Reports
received tonight give tetanus as the
cause Of death in two cases.
Chicago, July g.: A dispatch to the
Record Herald from Warsaw, Ind,
says: Send John D. Rockefeller and
a dozen other trust magnates to pris-
on for a long term Of years and one
of the most vital questions before the
people of this country will have been
solved" declared William Jennings
Bryan yesterday at a banquet given
in his honor by the president Of the
Winona Lake assembly. president
Roosevelt and the others are now
bringing to q successful issue the
principles and ideas l advocated sew
enteen years ago." Mr.. Bryan contin-
ued. "This Is particularly true as re-
CARDS the tariff. The president Is
compiling my future speeches for me-"
Referring to the controversy between
the United States and Japan, Bryan
said that during his trip around the
world he visited the eastern empire.
A little more backbone at Washington
would settle the difficulties for all
time to come without a conflict be-
tween the two nations, he asserted.
Charlotte Observer: That misfor-
tunes are sometimes blessings in dis
guise Is cheerfully attested by Mrs.
Will Sprangler who had a thrilling
experience with a yenomous pilot or
copperhead snake few days ago. AS
mentioned in the Star, Mrs. Spangler
had the misfortune, as she thought,
to painfully cut her finger while open
ing a can. This accident, however,
probably saved her from being bitten
by one Of the most poisonous varieties
of snakes to be found in this section.
She had gone into her garden to gath
er some beans, and as a precaution
against getting dew in the injured fin
ger, had wrapped it up carefully in
handages together with having hand
kerchief bound around her hand. She
had only been picking a few minutes
and as she bent back a cluster OF the
bean vines a large pilot or copper
head snake which was coiled under
meath the vine, struck at her viciously,
the ugly and poison laden fangs strik-
ing the handaged hand fairly and
squarely. Fortunately the bandage
was not penetrated, and to this pre-
vious accident she probably owes her
Life. The snake, a big one, was killed
by a neighbor, who was attracted by
Mrs. Spanglers cries.
Chester B. Runyan, teller Of the
Windsor Trust company of New York,
who disappeared about ten days ago
with $4,000 of the banks money, was
captured in q New York city fiat last
Friday afternoon, having been betray-
ed TO the police by woman with
whom he had been living since the day
he disappeared, but who was ignorant
as to who Runyan really was until she
saw his picture in a newspaper, and
then she told the police. OF the $685.
3177O which Runyan stole from the
trust company, $54.410 was recovered
by the police, and $4,000 more was
accounted for, but the whereabouts of
the balance is unknown. The prisoner
tells the police that he gave Mrs.
Carter. the woman who betrayed him,
$1,000 Of ii, and this the woman de-
nies, and all search for 1t about her
premises has failed TO bring it to
tight Runyan says that when he left
the bank on Saturday afternoon, June
22d, he oply took $4,000 Of the $4,000
he Is accused Of taking, and that the
other $4,000 was taken previous to
that date and was lost in deals that
he had made in Wall street. The Car
ter woman is held by the police on a
charge Of grand larceny. Runyan's
wife. whom he deserted for the Carter
woman, had but SO on which to sup
port herself when her husband left.
John d. Rockefeller, recognized as
the head of the Standard Oil company,
was q witness in the Federal court at
Chicago last Saturday, but did not
prove 10 be a very good witness. Mr..
Rockefeller didn't know a great many
things that the court wanted TO know,
and his evidence in itself did not seem
10 be Of very much value on the point
that the Judge wanted to bring out.
The Standard Oil company of Indiana.
has been convicted in the court at
Chicago. Of certain irregular practices
in regard to railroad rates, rebates,
etc, and is liable to fines aggregating
something like $29,000,00O, this COM
pany is generally regarded as a sub
sidiary company of the Standard Oil
company Of New Jersey, of which Mr..
Rockefeller is the recognized head,
and the Federal judge in Chicago.
wanted to learn from Mr. Rockefeller
something about the assets and ability