Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-24
Straps aud fatts,

biles are being constructed at CALI
coon, Sullivan county. by T. A. COOK
a brother Of the noted explorer. The
automobiles are housed in a barn and
no one except the workmen Is per-
mitted to see them. DIR. COOK mace
himself famous by his ascension OF
Mount Mckinley in Alaska, the hlgn-
est peak In North America. He firm
ly believes that the automobile Will yet
solve the Arctic mystery and that oy
the use Of specially constructed ma
chimes, such as he is having oullt at
Callicoon, q dash for the pole Will De
an easy matter. It Is understood that
the automobile will be fashioned like
a motor boat and can be so construct
ed that good speed can be made with
them on land, ice or water. 1t has not
been asserted here when DR.. COOK IN
tends to make his dash for the North
Pole. but it is not believed that the
start will be made this summer.
Alarmed over the failure of the
steel manufacturers to produce suit
able steel tie and the rapid decline In
the number of wooden ties produced
annually, says a Pittsburg dispatch
the Pennsylvania railroad announces
that 1t will go into the tie-producing
business on the largest scale ever at
tempted in the world. The plans IN
clude the planting Of 10000 acres OF
land in the Allegheny mountains WIN
timber. Assistant United States BOT
ester E. A. Sterling has been placeo
in charge of the new forestry bureau
of the railroad. Within a short time
more than 1,039,0S1 trees Will De
planted in the 2O,000-acre tract which
lies between Altoon and Hollidaysourg
ON the eastern slope Of the Alleghany
mountains. 1t will be 40 years peIore
the trees now to be planted Will De
available for the first crop OF ties put
the railroad has decided that 1t must
look that far ahead. The Pennsyiva-
MIA annually uses more than e'eoV'-
600 wooden ties. At the present time
ties command an average price OF 30
cents each. After the first AZ years
II Is 6xpeCleu Ihc LoASSS "@-
4,32S, 900 ties annually. ii
THE statement that the negro shouio
not have been given rights 10 tuii GU
izenship by the United States IN 1900
WAS received with applause by the
general assembly Of the Northern
Presbyterian church in session at
Columbus, Ohio last Monday. Ihe
applause was not enthusiastic, but was
pronounced and came from all parts OF
the house. Commissioner wilson OF
pittsburg, Pa, in connection with the
presentation of the report Of the ooaro
OF missions for freedom, started the
small sensation, and continued:
have had men on this board Of freed
men say to me that they thought II
would have been wise to nave hxed an
educational qualification, or properly
oualihcation, and let the colored men
thus grow up into the enjoyment Oh
the full rights of citizenship" This
statement, according to the speaker
gives full credit to the man VINO had
written the amendment to the consu-
tuition, and Is no dlscredlt 10 the color
ed man. Putting the degraded south
ern negro at the side OF the. degraded
Pole, the degraded Slav, the degraded
Italian, he said he would select the
degraded southern negro as the one
possessing the most capabilities OF De-
ing transformed into a good American
citizen. There are more possibilities
among the negroes than among the
degraded alien population, he said.
Two negroes lynched, one white
man and two negroes killed, and seven
persons wounded, is the result Of an
attempt to arrest negro who at
tempted a criminal assault on Mrs.
Laura Moore near Manning, Ga, Mon
day night. Early Tuesday morning a
posse surrounded the house OF Sim
Padgett, suspected Of harboring the
negro who had assaulted Mrs. Moore.
On demand Padgett granted the posse
permission to search his house, but
when within thirty feet Of the house
the posse was fired on from within and
a white man named John Hare was
killed and three others were seriously
injured The posse returned the tre
killing Padgett and his ten-year-old
daughter, and wounding two more Of
his daughters and four sons. The
posse then retired for reinforce
ments. BY 10 o'clock a mob Of 500
was on the scene and started in pur-
suit of the negroes, who had escaped.
One was captured and taken before
Mrs. Moore but she failed to identify
him. He was however, identified as
the slayer of John Hare. The negro
was started TO Jail in company with
Sim Padgetts wife and a son. Short
ly the party was overtaken by seven
ty-five men, who took the prisoners
from the officers. Padgett's wife was
told to run for her life and as she
did so was riddled with bullets. Her
son was shot to pieces where he stood.
The negro who assaulted Mrs. Moore
was reported to be surrounded in
negro's house, and that in all proba-
bility he has been killed.
Says a Paris dispatch to the New
York Times: There exists in Paris an
International Academy Of Chore-
graphic Composers and Teachers"
which, although the name suggests
tripping the light fantastic toe, Is, in
realty, one Of the most laborious scien-
tifc societies in France. Its ambition
does not end with regulating the laws
Of the waltz and the quadrille and all
matters of dancingetiquette 1t tao
kles questions of higher interest and
far-reaching importance. The latest
sociological investigation of this in
ternational academy is as to how and
why people get married. In accord
ance with general instructions, 3,O96
professors of dancing, members Of the
academy, discreetly questioned their
l,097,5O3 pupils, married or about to
marry, as to how they fell in love with