Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-12
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m1nlOnS ana SuD1ScIS IOr Sdle, Will
thirty wives thrown in, for the modest
sum of 100000. His realm is that OF
Aysbonia, a strip Of land in Africa 25O
miles long and ninety miles wide.
The power of life and death Is the
kings prerogative, and goes with the
crown, as does the granting of all con-
cessions. A special attraction of the
offer is the royal crown, which Is
neat diadem made of human skulls.
The throne is made Of skulls and thigh
bones. Thus far his dusky majesty
appears to have had no offer.
Washington, November 8: the
census bureau today issued its bulletin
showing the total cotton crop of this
wears growth ginned to November to
be 6,167,600 bales, as compared with
6,9O6,395 bales for 1906. The figures
are the result of the investigation or
the special agents of the bureau, which,
In addition to the figures given, show
that there were 26,135 ginneries In
operation as compared with 27,S70 for
1906. In the computation round bales
are counted as half bales. The result
by states for the present year is as
follows Alabama 60S,922 bales, Ar
kansas 293,541, Florida 2S,6S7, Georgia
1,195,S95, Indian Territory 191,15O,
Kentucky 494, Louisiana 277,5S6, Mis-
sissippi 629,4S5, Missouri 1853, North
Carolina 326,437, Oklahoma 1919,
South Carolina 7SS,045, Tennessee 1Os,-
222, Texas 1,57s,496, Virginia 2.34s.
Douglas, Arizona, November s:
Jesus Garcia, a locomotive engineer,
yesterday saved Nacozari, Ariz, from
destruction by running a burning pow
der train through the town at top
speed, but lost his own life and caused
the death of a dozen or more Mexican
section hands. Two cars of powder
exploded just as the flaming train was
passing a section house. The train
caught fire when near Nacozari. In 1t
were two open cars heavily loaded with
explosives. Realizing that the concen-
traitor and a good part of the town of
Nacozari would be destroyed If the
powder exploded there, Gracia called
to the rest Of the crew to jump and
started to run the train away from the
town. He had taken it a half mile
when the explosion occurred, as the
cars were passing a section house full
Of Mexicans. 1t blew the house, the
train, the men and the engineer to
atoms. A boy, not seeing the fire in
the train, sought to steal a ride on the
rear car, and was killed.
Portland, Oregon, November 3:
]. T. Ross, president; George n.
Hill, vice president, and T. 7. Berk-
hardt, treasurer Of the Title Guarantee
and Trust company, which went into
the hands of receiver Wednesday
last, were arrested today and war
rant is out for John E. Atchison, sec
retary of the defunct institution.
Atchison is now in New York city.
The arrested men were released after
furnishing $4,000 bail. The charge
against them is accepting money on
deposit while knowing the bank was
insolvent. Under the laws Of Oregon
this is a felony punishable by max
imum fine of $1,000 or imprisonment in
the penitentiary for two years, or by
fine and Imprisonment The arrests
were made on complaint of c. E. Z.
Ehman, who alleges that on Oct. 2S,
the day before the present day today
holiday period began, he deposited $3.50.
Ehman alleges that the officials Of the
bank knew on that day and had for
some time previous known that the
bank was insolvent.
New York, November 8: Infant
paralysis, of which the greatest cpl
demic known in the history of the
world has just passed over New York
city, was subject of discussion last
night at the New York Academy OF
Medicine. Concerning its origin and
even its treatment, there is much
mystery and so far it has proved a
disease which has almost baff1ed med
ical science. DR.. Virgil P. Gibney, as
sistant surgeon at the Hospital for
Ruptured and Crippled Children, spoke
of the great increase in the number of
cases in the institution with which he
is connected. In the months Of June
to November l, 1906, only thirty nine
cases had come under his observation,
while for the corresponding period this
year there had been 3S7, tenfold in
crease. DR.. Gibney strongly advocated
that heavy braces be used to prevent
deformities. He urged that confer
ence of neurologists be called to pass
upon a treatment by electricity. He
thought also that various counter-ir-
ritants might be employed with ad-
vantage. DR.. Lemmet Holt detailed the
history of the infant paralysis both
here and in Norway and Sweden and
traced the epidemic to the warm
months.
New York, November 8: Twenty
four tons of gold, rushed to New York
on the record breaking Lusitania to
ease the money stringency, was un-
loaded from the hold Of the fastest
liner today while thousands looked on
in curiosity. Packed in 334 small steel
bound boxes, the $12,361, $50 was car
ried by longshoremen down the gang
plank from the specie room in the af-
ter hold as If it were so much junk.
But there the simile ends, for police,
Cunard officers, plain clothes men,
United States detectives and a fence
interposed between the treasure and
the covetous The transfer of the
money began as soon as the steamship
tied up in the morning. On the shoul-
ders of the brawny dockmen the small
but heavy boxes were rushed to the
dock and placed aboard five double
trucks and two single ones. Vernon
H. Brown, general agent of the Cunard
line. watched every box, and James
Lancaster, who was palpably nervous,
checked off each one as it emerged
from the hold. AS soon as a truck was