Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-16
Scraps and faets.


she became i'll, and then having no
home and failing to provide herself
with one, the police say she wander
ed the streets until she became weak
from lack of food.
The Confederate Memorial asso-
citation, says a Richmond dispatch,
will soon purchase site for Battle
Abbey, the popular designation OF the
Confederate memorial institute. An
appropriation Of $4,000 for this pur-
pose has just been made by the city's
common council. The southeast cor
ner of Monument avenue and Addi-
son street has been selected as the To-
cation. Under the resolution making
the appropriation 1t is provided that
it shall be erected within three years,
and If when erected, 1t be not perpet-
ually maintained as a Confederate
memorial the lot shall revert to the
city of Richmond. In choosing the
location the association has contriv-
ed to bring about an even more pro-
nounced grouping Of Confederate
memorials. To either side Of the pro-
posed building rise the monuments
to Jefferson Davis and Robert =. Lee
and but one block away stands the
Jefferson Davis memorial. At re-
cent reunion Of United Confederate
Veterans at Memphis there was some
regret expressed because Of the de-
lays that have marked the prelimi-
naries incident to the establishment OF
Battle Abbey and general, satisfaction
will be created in their ranks by news
Of the appropriations having been
made
Teheran, July IA: Fighting In
the streets of Teheran that has been
going on more or less continuously
since the Nationalist forces made
their entry into the capital yesterday
morning, became more serious at mid
night last night, when the Persian
Cossacks opened heavy artillery hre
on the Nationalists, who at that hour
attempted to rush the Cossack's po-
sition from the north and east. The
Nationalists succeeded in occupying
q garden close to the house or Col.
Liakhoff, military commander of Te-
heran, where they are now being
shelled by the Cossacks. Rifle and
artillery fire has been practically con-
tinuous since yesterday morning. The
soldiers Of the shah from Sultanabad
have approached to within three miles
Of the city where the parliament
building Is situated. 1t Is reported
this morning that the shah's troops
are endeavoring to enter the city by
one Of the northern gates. Siphandar
and Sadarassad, the Natonalists'
leaders, have just transmitted the
following message to the British and
Russian diplomatic representatives:
I'm spite of the fact that the Russian
flag is flying over the house Of Liak-
hon, the National forces are being
fired on by Persian Cossacks station
ed under the roof Of this house."
Mexico letter to New York Sun:
The rurales or mounted police have
pretty nearly put stop to brigand-
age. Several years ago the govern
ment recognized the wisdom OF the
old adage, set thief to catch a
thief" and offered pardon and pro-
lection to ali brigands who would en-
list as rurales. Most Of them took
advantage Of the offer, writes Dillon
Wallace In Outing, and with these
men on the side Of the law and order,
holdups soon became infrequent and
the rurales developed into a wonder
fully efficient mounted force to hunt
down bandits. They are fearless RI
ders, they know every mountain pass
and fastness, and when they once
start after q man he is pretty sure to
be caught or killed-generally killed.
The rurales Of Mexico compare favor
ably in bravery and reckless daring
with that wonderful organization the
northwest mounted police Of Canada
and are by far the best armed force
in Mexico. Their calling gives them
opportunity for wild adventure, and
thus satisfies the craving for a life Of
danger, which led many Of them to
be brigands in the first instance. They
are a free and easy lot, quite in con-
trast to the peaceably inclined police
men of the towns and the slow NOV
ing, indolent soldiery Of the regular
army.
New York, July IL: Through
the arrest of two young white women
the police expect to solve the mystery
which has surrounded the tragic muir
der Of Ung Cow, Chinese laundry
man, high in the councils of the Ong
Leong Ting. Ung Cow had been
struck on the head and his body was
found on the morning Of July 1, in
two washtubs filled with scalding wa
ter, his head and shoulders in one
and his legs in the other. On the
confession of spy connected with
the police department detectives have
arrested one white woman with whom
been committed, Ung Cow told this
fond. They are looking for a young
white man who, 1t Is said, depended
on this girl for his support. The
night the murder is believed to have
been committed, Ung Cow told this
white woman that he had $400 in his
bank back Of his laundry with which
he proposed the following day to pay
an Indebtedness on his business. This
same night the white man whom the
police are seeking, demanded a sum
of money from the girl and, accord
ing to the Chinese spy, she told him
tho of IIn0 Gnw Thu other
white girl under arrest is chum Of
the former and was with her the
night that the Chinaman's money
was discussed. The two women with
an eight-year-old lad with whom they
were dining when arrested in a Chi
nese restaurant, have been taken to
police headquarters to be questioned.
Chicago, July IA: Wheat for
July delivery advanced Z cents to
$1.27 a bushel during g, stormy session
on the board of trade today, estab-
fishing a new high record for the sea-
son and giving promise Of a repeti-
ton of the recent deal headed by
James A. Patten and his colleagues
in the May option. The immediate
cause of the buying furry was addi-
tional rainfall last night in Kansas
and Missouri, where the new crop of
ing the thresher, and dispatches from
other harvesting and wheat shipping
regions, telling Of damage to the new
crop by excessive rains. In addition,
the official forecast for tomorrow for
the principal wheat growing states
predicted additional thunderstorms.
Warehouse men and professional ira
ders were said to be the principal
shorts. Elevator men weeks ago
bought wheat in the fields in winter
wheat states and sold July wheat in
this market. Since that time, wet
weather has interfered with thresh-
ing operations and thus prevented
quick delivery of the new crop. What
little contract wheat there Is for de-
livery in Chicago now belongs to the
Patten Clique. When shorts went to
Mr.. Patten early in the day with Of
fers Of settlement, it is said they were
told to buy the grain in the pit. This
caused the cent advance. The mar
ket closed at almost the top. Final
quotations on July were recorded at
$1.26 SIS to $1.25 3-4. AS a result of
the advance, flour was marked up 10
to 20 cents for the best descriptions
of old wheat variety while new wheat
flour was advanced 10 cents a barrel
Los Angeles, California, dispatch
to ASheyille N c. Citizen. Solomon