Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-31
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Parker went to the bad after his brave
act and finally died in an asylum Tor
the insane Parker was standing near
President Mckinley when he was shot
at Buffalo and grabbed the assas-
sin. CzolgoZ, and turned him over to
the police. His act attracted great
deal of attention, and Parker was eX-
plotted as a hero from one end OF the
country to the other. The late Mark
Hanna made him a present of $1,000
and other prominent men gave him
large sums of money. He spent II all
in dissipation and rapidly went down
hill.
The Aldrich currency bill was pass
ed by the senate last Friday by vote
of AZ to 16: Previous to taking the
vote on the Aldrich bill, the senate re-
fused to substitute the Bailey bill,
providing the government issue emer-
gency currency. AS passed, the Dill
provides for not more than five nun
dred million dollars emergency cur
rency to be issued to national banks
upon deposit by them of state, county
and municipal bonds to be approved
by the secretary of the treasury. Cur
rency to be issued with a view Of Sc
curing equitable distribution of cur
rency over the country in accordance
with unimpaired capital and surplus OF
banks in each state. Banks to pay tor
this emergency circulation at half or
one per cent the first four months 1t Is
circulated and afterward three-quar-
ters of one per cent month. Ihe Dill
provides that national banks shall pay
not less than one per cent on govern
ment deposits. An important amend
ment provided that of the 10 per cent
reserve required to be kept by banks
not in reserve cities, four-fifths to be
kept in vaults of banks and OF that
amount one third can be in the form or
securities. Another amendment prohi-
bits any national bank investing its
funds i'm stocks or securities OF cor
poration with which the banks Off
GERS or directors are connected.
Exception is taken by postal eX-
perts. says a Washington dispatch, to
the reiterated statement that the eX-
penses incident to rural delivery mas
been the cause of the deficit in the pos
tai revenues of recent years. In 1SS
when the expenditures on account of
rural delivery were only $14,S4O the
postal deficit was $11,411,779, while in
1907 the expenditure for rural delivery
had increased to $26,755,524, and the
deficit had decreased to $6,653.6S2.
These figures are cited to demonstrate
that the increased expenditure on ac-
count of the rural delivery service
bears no ratio to the annual deficit. On
the other hand it is certain that the
operation Of the rural delivery service
is responsible for a very large per-
centage of the increase in the postal
receipts. The establishment of a ru-
raj delivery route, it is claimed inVar-
iably brings with it a great influx of
mail to the locality affected, and this is
gradually followed by an increase in
the out going mail. There has also,
it is said. been a saving of more than
$4,000, 900 on account Of closing small
postofices and discontinuing star
routes. Various economies of manage
ment have been effected in the service
by establishing rural delivery on a
definite and business like basis so that
each route must show an adequate re-
turn to be continued.
Lowell, Mass, March 80: Twenty
thousand workers, men and women, are
affected by the 10 per cent reduction
put into, effect today by the cotton
mills of Lowell. 1t is expected that
similar action will be taken by all the
cotton mills of New England, unless
conditions soon show a decided i'm
provement. The mills in Lowell are
owned by the Appleton, Boot, Law
renee, Massachusetts, Merimac, Ham
ilton and Suffolk corporations. All
manufacture cloth except the Law
renee Manufacturing company which
makes hosiery and underwear. Man
ufacturers give as reason for the
change In wages the depression in the
cloth market, the high cost of cotton
and lower prices for goods. They also
say that the existing wage schedules
are the highest paid since the civil
war. Many Of the mills will continue
to curtail production until business i'm
proves. The cotton mills in New Eng
land number $40 out of 1000 in the
United States. OF 100000 cotton oper-
atives in the country the New England
mills employ at the present time about
165, 900, a Slight reduction from the
number at work last year. Fall River
has 10000 operatives, Lowell 10000,
New Bedford 10000, Manchester n.
H., $4,000: Rhode Island 10000 and
Lewiston, Me-. $500.
There was a bomb throwing trage-
dy in Union Square, New York last
Saturday Two men were killed. They
were the bomb thrower himself and
companion There was an aSSemblage
of 10000 unemployed in the park.
They assembled without the permis-
sion of the police, and became ugly.
Many of the people wore red caps the
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red flags were exhibited. The police
undertook to clear the park and $50 of
them charged on the mob for the pur-
pose. Their object was to keep the
crowd moving AS the park was al
most clear and while detachment OF
police was following behind, two men
came out from behind a monument.
One of them held in his hand bomb
with a smoking fuse and as he attempt
ed to throw it the bomb exploded.
Some twenty men in the immediate
vicinity were thrown from their feet.
The bomb thrower was knocked in
panion was killed When the insensi-
BILE man came to, he said that his name
was Selig Silverstein: that he was from
Russia, but lived in New York and
had a wife and two children. He
made il clear that he was an anar-
chiSt and that others were concerned
in the attempt to aSSaSSinate the po-
lice: but he declined to give names.
About 1.500 extra policemen, armed
with revolvers and night sticks were
kept on duty during the night; but no
further trouble developed.
- A negro and white man were
shot by Congressman Thomas j. Helm
on a Washington street car last Friday
nlSnI, lIS negro OIl pun pOSC anu IiAS
white man by a stray bullet. Con-
gresham Heflin was on his way to de-
liver a temperance lecture and was ac-
cOmpanied by Congressman Ellerbe or
South Carolina. Shortly after the two
men boarded the street car on which
there were a number of people, includ-
ing several ladies, two negroes began
helping themselves TO whisky out OF
bottle Mr.. Hefiin rebuked the negroes
for drinking whisky in such a pubic
place and one of the negroes gave him
some impudence. There followed des-
perate struggle as the outcome or
which Heflin threw the negro off the
car. The negro made Il move as If to
draw a pistol. Hefin got his gun out
first and fired two shots through the car
window. One shot struck the negro
in the head. The other went wild and
hit Thomas McCreary of New York
in the leg. Hetlin was arrested and
locked up until friends were able to
raise $4,000 bond for him. The negro
was not able to appear at court next
morning and the case was continued.
At first it looked as if the negro would
die: but he is now thought to be out of
danger IT was Hehin who some time