Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-25
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depressed condition In railroad affairs.
The condition, he said, was due more to
eXaggerationS and Misrepresentation
which the railroad managers presented
when trying Ito intimidate state legiS-
lators." Mr.. Bryan also found reason
for the present financial troubles in
watered stock and lack of bank de-
posit guaranty legislation. The big
Eastern banks" he said, violated the
law at every turn and did not keep Suf-
ficient reserves on hand TO meet the
demands for actual cash. If these re-
serves had been up, we should have had
no difficulty. We must look to some
plan for guaranteeing the deposits in
the banks. A law passed by congress
could help only national banks and the
states must take action which will pro-
tect state banks"
- Washington, February %: Chair
man Scott, of the house committee on
agriculture, today made a special an
nouncement regarding the bill for the
purchase by the government OF aD-
proXimately 100000 acres of noun
tain lands in the White and Appala-
chain chains for the preservation and
control of headwaterS in all but four
of the state east of the Mississippi
river. He said: "A great flood OF
letters urging the Importance of this
committee. Ii is physically impoSsi-
BILE TO answer all of these letters. L
desire to explain TO all who are inter-
ested in the measure that the reSolu-
ton of the house on the question OF
the constitutionality of the proposed
purchase has been submitted to the
committee on the judiciary and pend
ing that committees report the COM
mittee on agriculture does not feel
Xal i,o orirr oYNN- Si n e n
to the bill. If the judiciary committee
reports that the purchase would be
unconstitutional, of course that Will
block proceedings. If the report Is
favorable, the agricultural committee
will take up the bill as soon as other
duties permit and will give 1t earnest
and thorough consideration"
Some weeks ago, Mr.. A. NJ. Sar-
gent, of this city, brought from the
town of Haverhill q favorite cat and
placed her in his store on Union
street The cat remained in the store,
apparently quite cOntented, for three
or four days, but one morning. upon
opening the store. she was missing,
says the Lynn Reporter. Nothing
more was heard of her, and it was
supposed she had been killed, when
one day this week she was heard
scratching at the window of her old
home in Haverhill. She looked
jaded and weather beaten, but was
otherwise in fair condition. The time
that had elapsed between her depart
ure from Lynn and her arrival in
Haverhill was just six weeks and one
day. Whether she was travelling all
that time is of course not known. She
was brought in a close box, on the
railroad by the way Of Georgetown,
Danvers and Salem, and the distance
she must have travelled on her return
could not have been less than thirty
to forty miles. How she succeeded in
finding her old home, which was a
mile and a half west of the center of
the town, without any scent or posi-
BILE means of guidance except her own
instinct, crossing the Merrimac river
and several small streams which lay
in her direct track, must ever remain
q mystery. If any one knows of q
more remarkable case of instinct in a
cat we should like to hear Of it.
Senator Knox Of Pennsylvania,
last week introduced bill in con-
greSs providing tor the establishment.
of postal savings banks along the lines
favored by Postmaster General Myers
and approved by President Roosevelt.
The bill authorizes the postmaster
general to establish postal savings
he may designate. Accounts may be
opened by any person ~ years old or
more in his own name, by Il married
woman in her own name, free from
any control or interference by her
husband; by a trustee, by a parent,
guardian or other person Tor the BEN
etit of a child less than 10 years old,
or by any charitable or benevolent
society or association. Postal banks
shall receive deposits in even dollars,
with one dollar as q minimum. Post
masters are required to make daily
reports to the postmaster general,
who will forward to the depositor
written acknowledgment or It's re-
Ceipt. Deposits are not liable TO Seiz-
ure or detention under legal process
eS against the deposition. They will
be exempt from taXauOn. Interest at
the rate of 2 per cent is allowed. The
postmaster general is authorized to
place the deposits in national banks
in the immediate vicinity of postal
banks as safeguard of centraliza-
ton of currency. The bill carries an
appropriation of 100000 to give il
effect.
- Portland, Me. February -: Will
liam Hamlin, one of the survivors of
the crew of the steamer Dundonald,
which was lost on one of the Auck-
land Islands about 4 year ago, arrived
here today and told of his experiences
while living eight months on the
desert isle. Twelve of the crew of
twenty-four men were lost, and from
March until November the survivors
We're practically on the verge Of star
vation. All they had to eat were sea
fowl, which they killed with sticks,
roots. and fish. Hamlin said: I'VE had
no food nothing in fact, and had to
live like wild men. We killed the
wild hens and wild birds which flock
ed around the island ate the roots Of
the brush which grew there, and
caught fish. We suffered terribly
with hunger and in fact almost died
of starvation. We knew about where
we were and we knew that on another
island several miles from the one on
which we were the New Zealand gov
ernment had Il cache in which food
was deposited for the benefit of ship
wrecked sailors How to reach this
island was question. After months
Of work we finally manufactured a
boat out of driftwOod bound together
with twigs, etc, and with this the is
land was finally reached. The cache,
however, was not to be found. 1t
was about the third week Of last
November that we finally sighted
steamer. which proved to be the New
Zealand lighthouse supply steamer
HinemOa. She took us on board and
in time we reached Wellington. New
Zealand"
A thousand unemployed Italians,
Jews and negroes, melted To deeds OF
violence by an anarchiStic speech by
VOltairine de Clyre, a girl disciple of
anarchsm, created serious riot on
Broad street, Philadelphia, last Thurs
day. The mob had assembled in a
hall and after listening to Il number
of socialistic and anarChiStic speeches
decided TO march 10 the city hall and
demand work of the mayor. They
had proceeded but Il short distance
when they began To delay traffic by
stopping cars and vehicles of all kinds
\ police officer interferred at this and
he was being roughly handled when
another officer sent in riot call ana
then went 10 the aid of the officer
'rhr fighting then got To be general