Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
Straps aud facts.

New York Times: A new record
in the retiring of nag officers Of the
navy is likely to be established in the
next fourteen months. In that time IA
out of the 81 rear admirals now in ac-
tive service will be retired under the
age limit In 1909 six Of the remaining
seven will quit the service, leaving In
active service Of the navy at the be-
ginning of 1910 only one of the rear
admirals now in the service, that lucky
officer being Rear Admiral Uriel Sc
bree, by many picked as the man who
will succeed Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans as the commander In chief or
the Atlantic fleet in August Of next
year.
New York, Oct. &c: AS result of
the furry there is more loose money In
New York than ever before-more
money outside Of banks, in wallets
stockings and supposedly secure hid
ing places in homes and in safe deposit
vaults. At the Office of the state bank
examiner it was estimated that upward
of $75,000,O00 has been taken from the
banks of Manhattan since last Monday.
This includes not only the immense
sums drawn out by panic-stricken de-
positors, but money that would ordina-
rily have been deposited, but is held
by its owners. The companies doing
a strictly safe deposit business have
been overwhelmed with applications for
strong boxes. Millions of dollars have
been packed in these steel vaults to
await the time when the public con-
fidence in banks and bankers Is res
tored.
Washington, October %: An i'm
portant decision was announced Satur-
day by the inter- state commerce COM
mission in an opinion rendered by
Commissioner Clements, whereby the
rate Of $1.25 per hundred pounds on
baIed cotton goods from southern cot
ton mills via Pecific coast points to|
Asiatic ports is held not to be excess
siye. The decision also holds that the
rate does not discriminate against
southern mills in favor of the more
distant eastern mills, which ship cot
ton goods to Asiatic ports via the Pa
cific coast. The case was that OF the
Enterprise Manufacturing company OF
Augusta, Ga: the Monroe Cotton mills,
of Monroe, Ga; and the Graniteville
Manufacturing company Of Granite
Vile, S. c., against the Georgia Rail-
road company. and more than score
of other railway lines.
New York, October 26: In an ad-
dress on the subject: THE Individual
and the State" before the League for
Political Education today. William
Jennings Bryan declared that what
ever relief comes to society or to the
race must come from the deliberate
income of those who are not crushed
by ~overty and to whom the mere
struggle for existence does not demand
all the exertion of their minds. Nor
does relief come from those so rich
that their minds are centered upon
their fortunes. 1t must come from the
great middle classes" Mr.. Bryan said
that men have been commanded not to
kill and that the same command was
made as to stealing. Recent revelations
he said indicate that some people must
have thought that the command applied
only to certain ways Of stealing. They
thought this referred to stealing small
amounts" he continued. 81 begin to
think that, under some standards, 1t
seems to be a greater crime to steal
hundred dollars than million"
Pittsburg dispatch to New York
Times: John A. Brashear, the astrono-
mer, has discovered a remarkable
group Of sun spots, some Of them so
prominent that, with favorable condi-
tions they can be seen with the naked
eye. He said: For the last six days
the surface Of the sun has been literal
ly covered with spots. On Saturday
evening at sunset some of these spots
could be plainly seen with the naked
eye. Up to the present time l have
found five great groups, which cross
near the centre Of the sun. They ex-
tend to the equatorial region, where
they are not usually found. One
great group Of 100000 square miles
has three bridges extending across a
dark path of the sun, forming sort of
three-sided connection between the
south, east and north sides of the
suns surface" Mr.. Brashear says
that the chances of seeing the spots
with the naked eye tomorrow will be
good. Dark colored glasses and smok-
ed window pane are in great demand.
st. Petersburg, October %: Gener-
al Maximoffsky, director Of the de-
partment of prisons, Of the ministry
of the interior, was shot and killed to-
day. The general was the highest re-
sponsible official connected with the
Russian prisons and it is supposed
that this was the reason he was Sc
lected for assassination by the Terror
lists. young woman, who has not
at the weekly reception Of General
Maximoffsky and remained quietly in
the crowded ante room until it was her
turn to enter the generals private CT
flee. When she was in his presence
the woman drew a revolver and fired
seven shots point blank at the general,
six Of them taking effect. The wound
ed man was hastily taken to hospi-
tai, but his condition was hopeless.
The generals assassin. who was ar
rested, Immediately unhesitatingly
avOwed herself to be an emissary of
the northern flying section of the So
cial revolutionists who had been en-
trusted with the task Of Furnishing
MaximOffsky for the stern regime
which he lately had introduced in the
treatment of important political pris-
oners, whom he ordered to be treated
like ordinary criminals.
New York correspondence Phila-
delphia Ledger: All New York is talk
ing of the conviction of DR.. Walter r.
Gillette, president of the Mutual Life