Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-03


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whisky business in tie same length
of time of sI5,0S7.S6, or an. annual
trade of SS0,o75.2O. Combining these
amounts paid to the doctors and the
drug stores, it will show that $45,112.SO
is spent annually for whisky in the
drug stores alone. These figures will
show that it pays to be a drug store
and a doctor in Charlotte.
The dead body Of a nude woman
was found in the water and slime Of a
lonely pond outside the town Of Harri-
son, N. j., on Christmas Day. There
was every evidence that the crime of
murder had been committed and since
that time the police Of the entire sur
rounding country have been trying to
solve the mystery. Different people
have identified the body as that Of an
acquaintance, some giving one identity
and others another: but in each case 1t
had been found that the identitications
were incorrect. Acting Mayor Daily OF
Harrison, Wednesday announced that
the city council would offer reward
of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction
of the slayer. With the hope Of finding
a new clue in the way Of clothing or
effects, the pond in which the body
was found is to be drained. The ia
nous Belgian police hounds, which Po-
lice Commissioner Bingham imported
recently will be used in the attempt to
track the murderer.
- Judge Pritchard, judge of the Unit
ed States circuit court, entered a de-
cree yesterday naming S. Davies War
field Of Baltimore, and r. Lancaster
Wilson of Richmond, as receivers to
take immediate possession Of the prop
erty Of the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
The bond Of each was fixed at $4,000.
By the decree the receivers are empow-
cred to borrow money if needful to pay
such rental as may become due, pur-
chase cars, etc., and pay for labor and
supplies, but not for any other purpose
without an order Of the court having
primary jurisdiction. They are order
ed to pay forthwith all installments
and interests that was due and payable
January 1, 1908, notes or trust equip
ment certificates and all coupons and
interest maturing January l. 1908, on
the first mortgage bonds Of the Sea-
board Air Line and embraced roads
such as the Raleigh and CASTOR, Raj
eigh and Augusta Air Line, the Georgia
Carolina and the consolidated mort
gage bonds Of the Carolina Central.
Boston Globe: In a little more
than 100 years, according to govern
ment figures, the population of the
world has grown from 640,000,OOO to
1,6OO,O0O,0OO, an increase Of $50 per
cent. At the end Of so many hundreds
of centuries, in other words, there
were in the world in 1900 only $40
100000 of persons, and in 106 years
from 1900 to 1906, to this number had
been added 96O,000,0O0. The total
commerce Of the world IN 1900 was
about one and a half billions of dol
lars; in 1900 it was more than twenty
billions of dollars. Other figures show
that in wealth and the growth Of va
rious industrial agencies the increase
has been far swifter than that of pop
ulation. The overpopulation of the
world is not a present menace to the
thinkers of today, but the thinkers OF
q period when there were less than
half as many people in the world as
there are now seriously debated the
imminence of the catastrophe that the
overcrowding of the earth would pro-
duce.
Teheran, Persia, is the scene OF
a civil war. Reactionaries have taker
possession of and are holding the Gem
Souare and open places in the vicin'
ity of the palace. The constitutions
alists to the number Of 10000 have
erected barricades extending for miles
around the parliament building. UI
TO the present time the negotiations
between the Shah and the Persian
Darliament have been without result
The parliament, on behalf Of the ma
tion. has issued a manifesto 10 the
world. explaining the present const'
tutional crisis and appealing for as
sistance. The claim is made that the
sovereign is violating his covenant
with the people in siding with the re-
octionaries, who have persuaded the
young ruler that the constitution Is
the cause of the trouble in that coun-
trv. On the same day that the man
ifesto was issued the British and Rus
sian governments took action towards
arranging a settlement of the dispute
and il is expected that the troubles
will cease in a short time.
Probably the largest temperance
movement any one business concern
has ever known eliminated on the
Northwestern railroad last Wednesday
night when a temperance pledge
signed by $4,000 employees became ef-
fective. An effort was made to have
every employe Of the road sign the
nIedge. The movement originated
among the railroad employees them
selves and not among the officers
Three months a9o when the North
western begun cutting its force to q