Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-25
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such raids. He would first use state
troops, Mr. Noel said, and finally seek
Federal aid to restrain lawlessness at
any cost He added that he expected
night riding to stop without military
interference.
- Charlotte Observer; Thursday:
Mill men and others interested in the
cotton trade are still talking of the
threatening letter sent by unknown
parties to the manager Of the South
ern Cotton Oil Ginnery at Shelby
last Saturday. The uppermost fea-
ture in the public mind just at this
time is the question as to whether or
not the farmers of Cleveland county
had anything to do with the matter.
While there is small belief that they
did, an Observer man asked Mr.. Z. Z.
Moore, former president of the North
Carolina division of the Southern Cot
ton association, and one of the best
posted citizens in the state, as TO what
he thought about it. Mr.. Moore said
that he had met with and talked to
a great number of farmers within the
past several days and that every one
without exception had condemned the
Shelby affair without reservation:
Not one believed that the farmers OF
Cleveland county had anything to do
with it and all expressed themselves
III FAVOR Ol SlSlllllS lCSOiuNIOii' va
demning "night-riding."
- Washington, September %: The
International Congress on Tuberculosis
opened today, with representatives
from practically all civilized countries
of the globe in attendance. The con-
gress will continue for three weeks and
much good is expected to result from
the campaign of education that will be
carried on. News comes from the ma
val hospital at New Fort Lyon, Col,
that the use Of mercury in the treat
ment of cases of this dread disease has
proved so successful that the medical
officers are almost positive 1t is cure
for the white plague in all its many
forms. This news comes from Medical
Inspector c. T. Hibbett, Of the navy,
who in transmitting a paper by sur
geon B. L. Wright on the treatment or
tuberculosis by mercury at the naval
hospital says: I'VE are almost con-
vinced that mercury judiciously used
is a specific in the treatment of tu-
berculosis in all of its forms. 1t should
be borne in mind that some Of the
cases therein reported were, at the time
that mercury treatment was cOmmenc-
ed, apparently at deaths door and
there can be no doubt that their lives
were saved"
- Toulon. France, September %:
During gunnery drill today one OF
the big turret guns on the French
armored cruiser LaTouche TreVille
exploded with terrific violence, COM
pletely wrecking the after turret and
killing outright the entire gun crew
Of thirteen. A number of men were
seriously injured, some of them prob
ably fatally. The accident was SINH
lar to that aboard the gunnery school,
ship Couronne off Les Saline d Hyer-
es August 12, last, when by the burst
ing of the breech of the gun six men
were killed and eighteen injured.
The drill today had been proceeding
for a considerable time, when without
warming the whole turret seemed to
blow out. Dismembered bodies were
thrown in all directions and several
Of them were hurled into the sea-
The spectacle was horrible, the dead
and wounded, with shattered arms
and legs, littering the decks. A call
to quarters was sounded and as
speedily as possible the wounded
were cared for. The gun that explod-
ed was 10 inches bore, Of which the
cruiser carried two. Happening so
soon after the accident on the Cou-
rome the explosion today has caused
a sensation in navau circles and
doubtless will lead to a rigid inves-
tigatiOn. The cruiser carries COM
plement Of $40 men.
-Lemans. France, September %:
Owing to a high wind today Wilbur
Wright did not attempt flight in his
aeroplane. He had intended trying
for the Aero clubs $1,000 prize for
the longest sail within an irclosure.
Wright has almost recovered from
the depression that followed the re-
ceipt of the news Of the injury of his
brother, Orville, and the destruction
of the latter's machine. He said this
accident would make him more careful
to thoroughly examine every part or
his aeroplape before every flight.
Wright is today the lion Of France and
Of the world. He is receiving mes
sages of cOngratulation from all
over Europe and America, but is
bearing his new honors with charac-
teristic modesty. There was nothlng
marvellous in the performance,
Wright said to a group of enthusiast
tic admirers. THE machine is built
on the right principles and as long
as it is properly manned, it has got
to fly. / could have stayed up anoth-
er hour or until the petroleum was
exhausted but it was getting dark
and / thought it best to come down.
I am glad for my sake that the flight
was such a success, but douDly glau
on account of Orville's accident.
Many persons thought that when my
brother met with his regrettable ac-
cident last week that our machines
were failures, and that we had been
enabled to fly largely through good
luck. Well think they ought to be
convinced now that the aeroplane IS
all that we have claimed for II, and
that the coming machine will be a
development along the lines that we
have laid down."
st. Petersburg, September 20:
With the death rate mounting stead
lily and the number of areas of infec-
tion multiplying, the cholera situation
in st. Petersburg is growing worse
from day TO day. Between noon sun
day and noon Monday the municipal
hospitals reported $50 cases and 155
deaths, compared with 39S cases and
14l deaths in the preceding twenty
four hours. The addition OF the sta
tistics from the military and suburban
hospitals for this same period of time
Swelled the total to truly formidable
proportions. There are thirty-four
cases of policemen alone in the Sem
inoffsky military hospitals. Dis
patches received from three prov
inces report 4SS new cases and 2O1
deaths in twenty-four hours. Efforts
of the police to stop the sale OF liquor
and other measures to prevent spread
of the scourge have had virtually no
effect. The police summarily closed
several restaurants that had violated
the order against the sale of spirits
and seized the stock of unlicensed
dealers, but there was little dithculty
in obtaining liquor in an illegal way.
The hospital situation has reached a
crisis The Obuchoff hospital, which
is in the centre of one of the worst
districts, is turning away patients
and the Kalinkin hospital, which was
opened September IS, already is full.
Two new hospitals will be opened I'M
mediately The government has given
the city the use of the dOrmitories IN
the archaeological Institute and two
military barracks for the housing OF
patients with ordinary illnesses. This
will make more room for the cholera
cases. The situation is complicated
by the presence of many typhoid
fever cases.
Washington, September %: The
census bureaus report shows a total
of 4,575,43S running bales of cotton
consumed in the United States during
the year ending August 31st last, COM