Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
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to and robbing a postottice and SEN
fenced to prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Kan, for seven years. Three years
later he made his escape, and settling
down in Kansas City, went into busi-
ness and later married and has raised
a family. In Kansas City, he was iOok-
ed upon as a straightforward business
man and was generally respected. A
short time ago he was rearrested and
taken back to Fort Leavenworth to
serve out his sentence. Since his re-
arrest, hundreds of petitions have been
circulated in Missouri pleading for a
full pardon from the president.
- Engineer Scannon Of a Chesapeake
& Ohio freight train, says Lexington,
KY, dispatch, was the hero last Tues
day Of a thrilling race between a train
and a barn, with several lives at stake.
Scannon's train was passing Tobbs sta
ton, near Lexington, at a good rate,
when the high wind which was blow
ing lifted big tobacco barn from its
foundation and started it rolling down
hill toward the railroad half mile
away. Scannon saw the danger and
Immediately threw the throttle wide
open in an effort to outrun the barn.
The heavy train was on down grade
but just as it looked as though the
peril would be outrun, the big barn
crashed into the caboose, smashing IT..
The impact also shattered the barn
which collapsed on the rack. Train
men on the caboose saw their peril in
time to escape by jumping.
: The larger part of the business
session of the New York Methodist
conference recently was devoted to
a discussion of the appointment Of
presiding elders. The matter was in
troduced in the form Of memorial to
the Methodist general conference,
which meets next spring, asking it to
change the Methodist discipline so as
to have presiding elders elected by the
annual conferences and not appointed
by the bishops as at present. One
speaker urged that the whole system
of presiding elders ought to be abolish
ed, calling them an unnecessary ex-
pense to the church. There are in the
whole church, he said, 500 presiding
elders and they cost the church ST.
100000 year. At the same time he
charged, they do not visit the church
es as they should nor do they preside
at the quarterly conferences as thy
are supposed to. There was an over
whelming vote in favor of the me-
mortal to the general conference.
Judge w. G. Loring shot and kill
ed Theodore Estes, near Oak Ridge,
Va, last Monday afternoon. Loring
Is q former member Of the Virginia
legislature, and has charge of the
country estate of Thomas F. Ryan.
Estes had been paying attention to
Loring's nineteen year old daughter,
Elizabeth. The two had been out driy-
ing the day before and Estes brought
the young woman back in an uncon-
scious condition. When she was able
to talk she told her father that Estes
had drugged and assaulted her. Judge
Loring Immediately became as a wild
man. He rode ten miles before he
found Estes, and as soon as he came
upon the young man killed him with
a shot gun. He was admitted to bail
next day in the sum Of $1,000. Friends
Of young Estes have given out a state
fN hn tho fnra0nin0 O
story is only true in part; that the only
provocation that Judge Loring had
was that Miss Loring had become in
toxicated from liquor given her by the
young man.
In an address at a reception given
in his honor by the Merchants Ex-
change Of Memphis, Tenn, last Tues
day night, President w. w. Finley, Of
the Southern railroad said, among
other things: IF the railways Of the
south are to continue to be the most
efficient agencies for its material ad-
vancement they must, in the future
extend and improve their facll-
tiles on a scale that will involve the
expenditure Of large sums of money.
Practically all of it must be borrowed,
and borrowing power rests on ability
to show to investors in railway securi-
ties that the income over operating
expenses, taxes and fixed charges is
sufficient to protect their investments
and that future income Is not endan-
gered by adverse legislation or the
prospect Of adverse legislation. The
course of the legislatures of Tennessee
and South Carolina in declining to
enact laws that would hamper rail-
way development will be beneficial not
only to these states, but to this entire
section of the union. The benefit to
these states will not be confined to the
encouragement of railway develop
ment within their borders but will ex-
tend to the encouragement of invest
ments of all kinds. Capital is proven
bially timid and always flows with the
greatest freedom into those enter
prises and into those localities where
it is safest. The best advertisement
that any state can have is the wide
spread knowledge Of the fact that Its
lawmakers can be depended upon to
give every proper protection to prop
erty and not to embark upon policies
that would endanger investment. The
people of these states will benefit by
their conservatism and believe that
there will be found active and earnest
advocates of legislative policies In all
the southern states that will insure to
the railways of this section fair and
just treatment and freedom from such
restrictions as would hamper their
ability to so increase their facilities
and to keep pace with the growing de-
mands of the south"
- Several weeks ago President Roos-
evelt wrote letter in which he refer
red to Meyer and Haywood, now on
trial in Iowa for the murder of eX-
Governor Steunenberg, as undesirable