Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-02

ago. has been worked with remark
able success, according to a current
police report, right here in New YORK
city. Joseph Satlow, jeweler In sew
enth street, whom the police class as
one of the most knowing men In his
business, has thirty-four pounds OF
brass filings to represent a cash pay
ment Of $500 by him. Working the
game in the same old way, Russian
peddler. who had sold goods for the
ieweler showed him some glittering
metal filings which he said ne hao
scraped from large gold brick In the
hands Of two strangers. The 1eWeler
assayed the filings and found them 10
be pure gold. He fell into the trap
easily and he asked the peddler to ef-
feet a meeting between him and the
two men who had the brick. The result
of this and other meetings was that
the jeweler assayed number Oh par
cells of filings which were said to
have come from the gold brick and
became so satisfied that he was get
ting a bargain that he paid the men
$500. When he got the heavy bag
of filings home he discovered that
they we're composed of very poor
alloy of brass, worth about $3.50.
"A few days ago New York po-
liceman died of worry because dog
had bitten him. On the other hand,
In that city and this, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, the gay and fes-
tive dogcatchers are bitten so often
that they pay about as much atten-
ton to the matter as they would to
mosquito bites, and surely nobody
ever heard of a dogcatcher having
hydrophobia. The real danger Is that
now and then a valuable dog may
contract delirium tremens by sam
pling one of this gentry. If 1t were pos
sible to obtain the statistics or the
bitten in a city like this 1t would
be found that the perils Of hydropho-
bia are far outnumbered by the dead
ly dyed stocking and the poisonous
hatpin, while the unexpurgated house
fly in one summer slays more human
beings than all the mad dogs since
Noah's day. DR.. Joseph w. Hearn,
Of Philadelphia, is Of the opinion
that the bite Of dog is no more
dangerous than the scratch OF
pin or the puncture of an infect
ed nail, but because Of exaggerated
printed and oral accounts the picture
of hydrophobia is so stamped upon
the public mind that the thought OF
1t, after being bitten by a dog, throws
imaginative people into such panics
Of nervous excitement that they uncon-
sciously reproduce its supposed symp-
toms. Although l have practiced
surgery in private and in many Phila-
delphia hospitals for the past twenty
years." he said, Il have never seen a
case Of hydrophobia either in man or
dog, nor do 1 know any other physi-
clan or surgeon who has"
New York, July /: Although COM
plete identification was impossible to-
night, there appeared to be a strong
probability that the body Of a China
man which was found floating in the
Hudson river in the upper part of the
city this evening was that of Leon Ling
or William l.. Leon, the murderer or
Elsie Sigel. The mans height, weight
and general appearance tallies with
that of Leon Ling, but as the body
was nude except for silk undershirt
and had been in the water for more
than a week, a thorough examination
will be necessary. Coroner Mcdonald,
who was the first to inspect the body,
believes that 1t is Icons as do a num-
ber of policemen, but until measur-
ments and facial characteristics are
carefully gone over the Identification
will remain in doubt. If it is Leon
the cause of his death will be another
mystery, although one theory, that
of suicide, would appear reasonable.
In salient features the body bore a
marked resemblance to Leon Ling.
The teeth were good, as were Icons,
the height about S feet inches,
which was Icons height, and the
weight 1875 pounds, which was about
Icons. The age appeared to be about
20 or 80 in years. Icons age was
given out by the police as 80. An
autopsy will be performed In the
morning. The coroner was unable to
arrive at any conclusion as to how the
Chinaman met his death tonight.
Early this morning Ung Vow, an in
conspicuous, hard-working Chinese
laundryman of the East Side, was
found by his neighbOrs strung be-
tween two wash tubs with his head
beneath the water of one and his feet
i'm the other There were bloody fin
ger marks, on his neck, bloody foot
prints on the floor and knotted cord
about the mans neck. In the cash
drawer the police found l cent. AL
attempts to connect the murderer OF
Ung Vow with the murderer of Elsie
Sigel by Leon Ling have failed. lnves-
tigations soon showed that Ung was
beaten over the head with fiat irons
probably by more than one man, and
then flung in the tubs. He probably
died by drowning while unconscious
The bank deposit guaranty law
passed by the last session of the Kan
sas legislature went into effect las
Wednesday, While the law affects only
such banks as elect to comply with it
1t is expected that all of the TT state
banks in Kansas will place themselves
under its provisions without delay
The banks, under the new law, are
to be partners in a sort of mutual In
surance company. They will have tt
put up a million dollars in state and
national securities to guarantee the
payment of deposits, and the dues OF
insurance premiums will be only one
twentieth of one per cent annually
Briefly stated the law provides fol
protection to the following classes Of
deposits: Those that do not bear in
terest, time certificates payable in no
less than months from date, and no