Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
Straps and fatts.

Cook, a young physician of New York,
last Thursday committed suicide at the
Waldorf Astoria hotel by drinking
poison and shooting himself. His body
was found by a hotel attendant. DR..
Cook was arrested on Tuesday and the
next day was released on bail bond
of $4,000. He was to have been pros
at Summit, N. ].
Governor Patterson of Tennessee, is
still in the Reel Foot lake region with
his military, trying to probe the recent
night rider outrage to the bottom. The
whole region is under martial law, and
the military has been reinforced by
picked bands of armed men. Some
forty or fifty alleged members of the
night rider organization have been ar
rested, and a special term of court was
convened yesterday for the purpose of
making a thorough investigation into
the murder of Capt Rankin last week.
1t develops that the murder Of Capt.
Rankin was the elimination Of a long
drawn out legal quarrel and there
have been numerous circumstances in
the past year that will afford clews to
the identity of the guilty parties. The
probability is that the investigation will
cover a period of several weeks.
An epoch making convention of
churchmen will assemble in Philadel-
phia on December 2. The convention
will be composed of eminent ministers
and laymen from the thirty leading
Protestant denominations Of the United
States and will be known as the Fed
eral Council of the Churches Of Christ
send it's ablest ministers and laymen to
the convention and they will discuss
such important problems as immigra-
ton, temperance, church federation,
home and foreign missions, religious
instruction for school children, the
church and labor and kindred topics.
Bishop E, r. Hendrix of the Southern
Methodist church will present a report
on THE Further Organization and De-
velopment Of the Federation Move
will make an address on Civic Right
eousness" Each denomination will
have four delegates at large and one
additional delegate for each $4,000
communicates. A total of 372 dele
gates is expected to attend the conven-
ton. This will be the first federal
council Of the Protestant churches of
America, and will avoid everything on
which the denominations disagree, and
lay especial emphasis upon the things
in which the Protestant churches can
work to the common good.
= New York Herald, October 25: That
Taft's star is now in the ascendant;
that the country is inclining toward the
Republican party, and that New York,
the battle-ground, the great pivotal
state in the presidential canvass, isl
half won by the Republicans being al
most certain for Taft and tending to-
ward Hughes. These statements epi-
tomize the Herald's forecast. The
summary by states of the electoral COL
lege appears to make Mr.. Taft reason
ably sure of 2SO electoral votes. He
needs 242 The reports on which the
forecast is based give the Republican
candidate the electors of all New Eng
land, of all the eastern states except
Maryland, of West Virginia, of all the
middle west except Indiana, which is
doubtful; of all the northwest, of Kan
sas, Idaho and Utah in. the Rocky
Mountain section and of the entire Pa
cific coast. Mr.. Bryan is apparently
sure of 156 electoral votes, including
Maryland and the entire south. Ken
lucky is undecided and Nebraska is
doubtful. States that according to the
Herald reports are uncertain are Colo
rado, Indiana, Montana and Wyoming,
with 26 electoral votes, which have
Republican leanings, and Kentucky and
Nebraska, with 81 electoral votes, with
Democratic leanings.
New York, October "a: National
Chairman Norman E. Mack authorized
a statement in which he claimed the |
election of William j. Bryan by al
landslide. Mr.. Mack announced that
his report showed that Bryan would re-
ceive at least 301 electoral votes or
fifty-nine more than necessary for a |
choice. The forecast said in part: |
"Rumblings and thunder of a Bryan
Landslide in the west are already heard |
in the eastern states and today 1 can
confidently predict the election of Mr..
Bryan, and that the landslide in the
west will extend to the shores Of the
Atlantic. 1t means the Democratic
ticket will carry every doubtful state
in this section and in rock ribbed Re
publican districts majorities of the par
ty in recent years will be reduced to a
minimum. Basing my forecast on the
most conservative lines in view Of the
optimistic reports / have received from
all sections of the country figure Bry-
an has at least 301 electoral votes, or
50 more than necessary for a choice.
This comfortable majority will be in
creased rather than decreased when
the vote is counted" Besides the SOL
id south, Mack says Bryan will carry
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, Kan
sas and South Dakota. He includes
Maryland in the solid south.
New York, October "a: According
to the calculations Of the Financial
Chronicle the worlds visible supply Of
all kinds of cotton last evening aggre-
gated 3,O32,245 bales as against 3,034,-
900 bales a year ago and 3,016,679 bales
two years ago. The visible supply of
American cotton tOtaled 2,494,245 bales,
as against 2,257,127 bales a year ago
and 2,264,679 bales two years ago. The
into sight for the week aggregated 6O2,-
241 bales, as against 456,799 bales for
the corresponding week last year. To
date this season the into sight totals
3,00S,129 bales, as against 2,2S2,6S1
bales for the corresponding period last
season. Southern consumption to Oct
8 was estimated at 100000 bales, as
against 3S5O00 bales for the CORES
ponding period last season; northern
Spinners takings at 3S2,O65 bales,
against 215.1SO bales. The worlds
takings of American cotton for the
week amounted to 2S52SS bales, COM