Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-08
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majority for delegate at large In the
primaries held last Saturday is shown
by approximately complete returns
to be in the neighborhood of only 2O,-
900, out of a total vote of 100000, a
very considerable majority of the
county conventions adopted resolutions
and appointed delegates favorable to
him. In many of them they instruct
ed for him for vice president. In a
number of other counties, notably
Dallas, instructions were adopted
condemnatory of Senator Bailey s
action and demand that the legisla-
ture shall pass laws forbidding public
officers to serve or represent corpor-
ations.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie rail-
road is the first road in the United
States to take up seriously the recent
order of the interstate commission
that every railroad in the United
States compile, print and make pub
lie the fare from. every station on its
line to every point in the United
that the task was impossible and the
order absurd. The officials of the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie will try,
however, to comply with the order.
A force of five clerks has been put to
work on the task. The Pittsburg and
Lake Erie is 100 miles long. 1t is es-
timated that five clerks will be able
to complete the task in five years.
When the work of compiling the mat
ter is completed it will take fortune
to have it printed. How railroads like
the Pennsylvania with its hundreds of
miles of track will ever accomplish
the task is hard to figure.
La Porte, Ind, and the country sur
rounding is all agog over the murder
sensation of the day A few days ago
the house of Mrs. Belle Guinness, of La
Porte was destroyed by fire, and it
was at first thought that Mrs. Guinness
and three children bad been burned.
Later Investigations seemed to indi-
cate that Mrs. Guinness probably set
the house on fire herself left her chill
dren to perish and ran away. In ad-
dition to the bodies in the house other
bodies were found buried in the yard,
twelve or fourteen in all. Some were
young girls; but most of them were
men. Now it is remembered that Mrs.
Guinness had for long time conducted
a matrimonial agency. She had been
married several times herself. She
collected life insurance on account of
two or three of her husbands. There
are several theories to account for the
dead bodies; but the most common one
is. that the woman put the men to
death as rapidly as she was able to
get hold of their possessions or make
arrangements to get their life insur-
ance. The whole horrible affair is be-
ing investigated as thoroughly as pos
sible.
New York, May 8: The discovery
today in the reservoir in Central park
of the body of John Peter Helms, a
wealthy man, who had been strange
ly missing for six months, revealed a
tragedy of deep mystery. There are
evidences that Helms was held captive
for ransom by desperate band of
men and that when their demands
upon his wife for the payment of a
large sum of money were not met the
man was murdered and his body cast
into the reservoir. An almost world
wide search for Helms has been in
progress since his disappearance. He
had a considerable sum of money, es-
timated between $75,0 900 and $780,
900. Search has been made through
out Germany and in the cities of 9TH
er foreign countries Only after the
finding Of the body did a certain let
ter received by Mrs. Helms three
weeks after the disappearance of her
husband, appear in it's truly sinister
meaning. She had been advised to
disregard the letter, but the state
ment that her husband was held cap
tive for ransom, and the threat that
he would be done away with unless
she paid the price demanded for his
release, appear TO have both been
made in earnest.
- Washington, May 6: At 1920
o'clock tonight the Republican eau
Gus of the house of representatives
committed itself by a vote of lis to
q to the principle of commercial pa
per as an asset upon which to issue
extra circulation in time of emer-
gency. This is in accordance with the
Vreeland bill, but by a separate ac-
to eliminate Mr.. Vreeland's name from
the measure. BY still another vote
the caucus decided to recommend the
appointment Of a commission to con-
slider the currency question and re-
port q bill at the next session of con-
gress. Coupled with this provision
was another providing for the imme-
diate appointment of a committee Of
five members TO draft a new bill in
accordance with the action of the
caucus and along the general lines of
the second Vreeland bill. In accord
ance with this action the chair ap-
pointed as such committee Messrs.
Vreeland, of New York; Burton, of
Ohio; Weeks, of Massachusetts; Nc
Kinley of Illinois; and KnOwland, of
California. Under the terms of the
resolution the committee will be eX-
pected to report perfected bill TO an
adjourned conference to be held next
Monday evening.
Washington, May 6: The present
situation regarding legislation for the
Appalachian national forest can be
determined distinctly hopeful. The ju-
dietary committee in holding that
where the forests can be clearly
shown to aid navigation. of a stream
navigable in whole or in part" the
government would exercise d consti-
tutional right in purchasing such for
estS removes the constitutional Objec-
ton" and should now mean immediate
action. 4 joint bill by Congressman