Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-24
Straps aud faets.

prosecution of the alleged grafters of
the state dispensary, with an amend
ment to the effect that the amount be
made $4,000. Senator W. ]. Johnson
for the minority, submitted an unfa-
vorable report The money is not 10 be
q direct appropriation, but Is to be used
out Of the dispensary funds. 1t may
not be necessary to use all Of this fund
or any large part of it, but the attorney
general might be embarrassed without
it.
Boston, January 20; After drag
ging wearily through the courts OF
Massachusetts for 122 years case
which began in 1886 finally was set
tied. So long, however, had justice
waited that all Of the heirs to the
original contestants have disappeared
and the original amount in question,
$2,396, which, with accrued interest,
reaches a total of $10,356, was order
ed by the court turned into the state
treasury. The suit was brought by
nine creditors against the estate OF
Ellis Gray, Boston. merchant, who
died in 1885, practically bankrupt.
The creditors set up claim that ne
transferred all his property to his
wife to defraud them and sued the
estate, the wife and her heirs.
New York, January %: While
it Is softly whispered that some OF
our American dandies retain their
once youthful figures by the use OF
corset, and while military men have
been charged with having whalebone
stays sewed in their uniforms, the
ordinary man SHES at such an inno-
vation. He must, however. prepare 10
overcome his scruples, for Nine. &C.
cile Jacques, Of Paris and LONDON, Is
here to force the corset on mere man,
not by violence, but by the unanswer-
able logic Of experience. She expects
to teach men to mob corset bargain
counters as members Of the gentler
sex now do. Although she defines the
corset for mere man as belt, 1t Is
the same that she prescribes for wom-
en-, with the exception that the top Is
cut off. Men can live to be 100 years
old If they discard their braces-sus-
penders believe you term them and
put on the belt want to introduce 10
Americans" she said. Nine. Jacques
purposes to tell in private lecture
to be given to a few persons, VINO
will see her in mems attire, OF the
manner in which men should dress.
No legislative action of more i'm
portance to the south has been taken
in years than occurred Wednesday
when the house adopted an amendment
to the revised penal code, making II
a crime for any employee or othclal OF
the government to falsify reports con-
cerning crop conditions anywhere in
the country. The amendment is aimed
to prevent a recurrence of such a
scandal as involved the department
of agriculture some time ago, when
Statistician Holmes decided the cot
ton reports in the interest OF wall
street gamblers. The amendment was
introduced by Representative James,
of Kentucky, primarily in the interest
of the tobacco growers OF his state
but 1t was made sufficiently broad to
cover cotton and all other agricultur-
al products. 1t was championed by all
of the southern Democrats and also
received the support Of many Repub-
licans from agricultural districts 1t
Is provided that any official or en-
ployee Of the government who falsihes
any crop report shall be subject to
fine Of not less than five thousand
dollars and imprisonment Of not more
than five years, either or both in the
discretion Of the court.
Washington, January 21: More
race trouble in the office Of the super
vising architect Of the treasury SINH
lar to that Of last year, when negro
from Orangeburg-Cooke- placed
side by side with white employees, and
when the issue became so acute that
fight between the negro and some OF
the white employees followed, is ex-
pected. The new trouble is due to the
fact that q negro woman from Chica-
go-Lillian Wright-was to day GER
titled for appointment by the civil SER
vice commission and assigned to work
in the supervising architects office in
the same room, and at the same desks
with a number of southern white men.
When it became known to the white
employees of the office that they were
to labor alongside of negro woman,
Nf ~, r.
ously to Supervising Architect Tay-
lor, but as in the case of the South
Carolina negro, nothing in the way OF
relief was promised. Apparently Mr..
Taylor makes no objection to the en-
ployment of negroes in his ONCE,
having taken no interest in the EFFORTS
made to GUST Cooke last summer, eX-
cept to pass the complaints against
his appointment up the line to Mr..
Cortelyou, where they were pigeon
holed The southerners in the office
say 1t is bad enough to have to work
with a negro man, but that when 1t
comes to a woman they can't stand II.
AS the result of this latest departure
some interesting developments are
looked for.
- Washington, January 21: The
application of George w. Austin, OF
New York, for order restraining Sec
retary Of the Treasury Cortelyou from
allotting $21,0OO,OO0 worth Of Pana--
ma Canal bonds to certain national
banks was yesterday denied by Jus.
tice Gould, of the supreme court OF
the District of Columbia. The court S
decision was rendered following argu-
ment by counsel for Mr.. Austin and
the government. The ruling is practi-
cally a dismissal of the suit. Mr.. Aus
tins suit sought to enjoin Secretary
COrtelyou from doing what was an
accomplished fact, and sought To in
woke the injunctive power of the court
in q matter within the discretionary
power of a member Of the executive
branch of the government. The circu-
lar which advertised for proposals
for Panama bonds reserved the right
to reject any bid. Judge Gould's de
cisinn hinged principally on this point
since it has been asserted by the sec
retary in his answer that Mr.. Austin
was financially irresponsible and that
his particular bid was rejected be-
cause it was for the best interest OF
the government. Mr.. Austin charged
that the secretary of the treasury