Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-25
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lnal CITY early Sulludy HlolhhiS, anu
seven Italians, including two women,
are held by the New Orleans police
charged with responsibility for and a
knowledge of the crime. The headless
body of the boy was found first and
then a few feet away the head was
found. A suspected Italian was put
through a sweating process and as a
result a confession was forced in which
the prisoners were implicated as par
ticipants in the crime. The reason
given for the murder of the boy which
was by strangulation, was because OF
his cries and pleadings to be taken
home. Excitement was intense in
New Orleans Sunday and the city had
not been so stirred by threats of vio-
lence since the Malta lynchings of
sixteen years ago. The authorities are
making every effort to prevent an out
break and the prisons in which the
criminals are lodged are being heav-
lily guarded by large numbers of po-
lice.
- Washington, June "a: President
Roosevelt, through the Interstate
commerce commission, today awarded
railroad life saving medals to Charles
Arms of Clarksville, Tenn, and Edgar
E. George of Parsons, Pa. Mr.. Arms's
heroic exploit was saving the lives OF
mail Clerks ]. G. Martin and Thomas
A. Frazier, and Baggageman Robert l..
Morris, whose train on the Louisville
& Nashville railroad ploughed through
the drawbridge over Cumberland river
at Clarksvile, fifty feet down the
stream, which was at flood stage. The
three victims mentioned clung to the
top of the partially submerged cars
which were being swept down the riv-
er. At first none dared to to their aid
but Arms, who was confined to his bed
with malarial fever. learned of the
accident and partially clad ran to the
river bank and appealed to bystanders
to go with him in boat to rescue the
men. He finally pushed off alone, took
off the imperiled trio and safely landed
them. George saved the life of Pol
ish lad, whose foot had become fas-
tened in a railroad frog at Parsons.
Unable otherwise to extricate the boys
foot, he seized the boys body, bent it
down outside the rail- forced the i'm
prisoned leg under the engine cylinder
oil boxes and steps on cars, which
scraped their bodies, but they escaped
uninjured except for the boys badly
strained foot and leg and slight
bruises sustained by George.
The United State congressional
immigration commission has been in
Italy during the past week and Rome
dispatch says of the commissions: The
commissioners are enthusiastic about
the assistance given them by the gov
ernment and the reception accorded by
the authorities wherever they went.
The contingent to Sicily and Calabria
had a most exciting time, as, beside
their legitimate work, they were, in
one sense, pioneers in opening up the
country They went about in automo-
biles accompanied by the Italian emf
grafton commissioner, Adolfo Rossi,
who is an expert on emigration on
both sides of the Atlantic. Up hill
and down dale they clanked and snort
ed, now on the edge of a precipice, now
in so narrow a street that even the
dogs were obliged to save their tails
by taking to the doorways, followed
and escorted by all the children and
many grown-ups of the district, and
creating a sensation and often times
fear, as in the mountains of Calabria
many peasant have never seen or heard
Of automobiles. The most thrilling ex-
perience was one dark night when they
descended a mountain with a precipice
on each hand and only one headlight
and through atrocious roads. Their
method of arriving at a village was
to call loudly for the mayor, the local
of the carabineers or any other local
authority. The first usually arrived in
his shirt sleeves; but, none the less
had the manner of an emperor and
made them welcome, putting himself
and the town at their disposal. So
they had a veritable triumphal prog
reSs.
- Shipping interests throughout the
country are much interested in charges
made by Frank L. Nell, Philadelphia
agent of the Cosmopolitan Steamship
company, to the effect that the Ham
burg-American Packet company and
other companies known as the Baltic
pool are maintaining in the United
States a monopoly in restraint of trade
and are bent on running American
shipping. Nell has made his charges
to the interstate commerce commission
and claims that he can produce the
names of scores of prominent railroad
men, big shippers and steamship
agents who will swear and show that
the Baltic pool has operated in this
country in a most dictatorial manner
under orders from abroad and that
shippers, railroads and municipalities
have been compelled to carry out the
slightest desire of the shipping COM
bination. Mr.. Nell further claims that
he has documentary proofs showing
the form of the trusts contracts in
which il not only dictated to shippers
the line of steamships that must be
used. but also specified the line of
railroad that must be favored, and will
show how contracts were forced which
had for their object the ruination of
some of the American steamship lines
and also how freight is diverted from
one port to another at the will of the
shipping trust. much to the detrment
of the post not in the favor of the
shipping combine. Mr.. Nell also
claims that every time an effort has
been made to establish an American
trans Atlantic line this Baltic pool by
cutting rates and other illegal methods,
has been successful i'm killing the pro-
ject. and claims that if the interstate
commerce commission cannot stop the
methods now in use by the Baltic
pool American capital will 1t once 80 =