Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-18
Straps and facts.

derwent some fearful grillingS, by the
attorneys for the defense, and while
Orchard broke down under the fierce
fire of the attorneys for Haywood. the
defense was unable to gain any dis
tinct advantages from the cross-eXam-
ination of Orchard. The prosecution Is
slowly building up testimony that the
defense is finding it hard to combat.
The second international peace
sued by President Roosevelt in Octo'
Der, 1904, convened at The Hague las
Saturday, with representatives from
forty-six nations present to consider
the possibility of minimizing the dan
gers of war incident to the rapid
growth Of naval and military arma-
ments. The initial session was gtver
over entirely to the exchange of greet
ings and the work of preliminary or
ganization. NJ. Nelidoff, Russian am
bassador to France called the confer
ence to order and made an address ir
which he extended the cars greetings
to the delegates. President Roosevelts
name was warmly applauded. The
conference will be in session about SIX
weeks.
Arthur E. Appleyard, a Philadel-
phia broker, tried to initiate Bot
Brownley," the hero of Lawson's Fri
day, the 18TH" on the floor of the Phil
adelphia Stock Exchange last Friday
30 or,.inf AnnlnVa rl nOlll6n'
make the scheme work out. He start
ed in to hammer down the price OF
United Gas Improvement stock, but the
stock was so we'll supported that ne
was unable to beat the price down
very perceptibly. He kept on selling
however, in the hope that he would be
able to accomplish his purpose and he
far outsold his ability to deliver the
stock. The president of the exchange
called on Appleyard to put up margins
to guarantee the delivery of the stock
he was selling. This Appleyard was
unable to do, promising delivery the
following day. He failed to show VI
at the opening on Thursday and his
seat on the exchange, valued at $4,000
was declared forfeited and will be
sold, the proceeds being divided among
the stock brokers buying the stock
which Appleyard failed to deliver.
The funeral of Senator John T.
Morgan was held at Selma, Ala, al
noon last Saturday, in the presence OF
an immense concourse Of relatives
friends and admirers. The funeral
train arrived from Washington at
O'Clock, and the casket containing the
remains of the distinguished senator
was placed in the Church Street Meth
odist church, Of which Mr.. Morgan had
been a member for many years, where
the remains were viewed by hundreds
of people from Alabama and through
out the south. Many floral tributes
sent by people from all over the world
covered the casket, among the flora
offerings being one from President and
Mrs. Roosevelt and scores Of Others
from United Confederate Veterans
camps, Daughters of the Confederacy
chapters, commercial organizations and
private citizens. Among the distin-
guished people attending the funeral
were Senator Pettus, Vice President
Fairbanks and members of the nation
al senate and house of representatives
The body was laid to rest in Live OaR
cemetery, the funeral services being
conducted by Rev. DR.. Dickinson, the
senator's pastor.
Will Johnson, a negro, was hanged
in the Fulton county Jail at Atlanta
Ga, last Friday, having been sentenced
to death upon conviction of criminally
assaulting a white woman in an At
lanta suburb He made a confession
while on the scaffold, and laid bare 8
number of crimes that have mystifiet
the Atlanta police for a year or more
Johnson admitted on the scaffold thai
he shot Amos Moody, white farmer
who was murdered on his way home
August 16, last year; that he attempt
ed an assault on Miss Lawrence, neal
Atlanta, August 20. by which she was
left unconscious, with one eye gourgeC
out, for which crime another negro
was sentenced to forty years impris'
onment that he emptied shotgun
through an open window of the resi-
dence of ]. w. Bryant, a farmer living
several miles north of the city, on the
night of November ~ last seriously
wounding Mr.. Bryant and his sister
he confessed to attempted assault or
two white women in the suburbs Of
Atlanta last fall, and he concluded his
admissions by telling of the murder Of
a man whom he called jackson, ir
Texas, several years ago.
- Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
was on last Friday afternoon convicted
on a charge of accepting graft. Only &
short time was consumed by the jury
in arriving at a verdict, the evidence
of Abraham Ruef the political boss
evidently admitting of little debate
among the jurors as to the innocence
or guilt of the accused mayor, who
according to Ruef's testimony, hae
shared in the graft which he hac
wrung from the proprietors of five
restaurants 10 save lIlelT llCeISeS. INuSI
testified that he had given Schmit;
half Of the money he had secured, ant
that the mayor had accepted the mon
ey with a full knowledge Of where il
came from and for what purpose
When the jury returned the verdict OF
guilty, the mayor received the an
nouncement without any show of emo
ton. His attorneys at once made q
motion for a new trial and stay OF
proceedings until they could prepare
the grounds on which a new trial is
asked. Sentence will not be passed
until the motion is heard by the court
The conviction of SchmitZ is the first
in the campaign against graft in Sar
Francisco, which has been in progress
for months. many high municipal Of
ficerS and corporation men being un-
der Indictment The court having re-
fused to grant him bail, Schmidt now