Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-30
Straps and faets.

age by states follows: Alabama 20
Arkansas rs, Florida IS, Georgia 70
Louisiana SO, Mississippi 81, Missouri
81, North Carolina 73, South Carroll
ma II, Oklahoma 70, Tennessee II
Texas &C. The report says: This Is
the lowest condition ever known al
this season Of the year and indicates
a crop of around 100000 and un-
less good rains fall in the next week
throughout almost the entire belt
but more especially in Texas, southern
and western Oklahoma and Missis-
sippi, the crop will be under that fig.
ure."
Chicago, July 2S: Stupendou.
graft, amounting to nearly $700,00(
a year, is collected annually in the
first division police precinct" &C.
cording to a statement by State At.
torney Wayman. The herculean tasl
of uncovering the vast horde of poll.
ticians, police officials, ward heeler.
and professional grafters, who are di.
viding these spoils which come from
one Of the richest graft districts ir
the world, has already been begun by
the states attorney and more thar
200 subpoenaes for the inhabitants OF
the South Side under world" are ly-
ing in the criminal court building
awaiting a favorable time to serve
them. With the West Side graft ex.
pose still sputtering and exploding
and hundreds of witnesses running
this way and that in a wild endeavo1
to get under cover" State Attor.
ney Wayman is going ahead with
preparations to uncover conditions
on the South Side, which are declar-
ed to be infinitely worse than the con-
ditions which were brought to light
on the West Side and which led the
grand jury to indict Inspector Edward
McCann and his right-hand man, De-
tective Sergeant jeremiah Griffin.
Madrid, Spain, July %: The
revolution in Catalonia has reached
serious stage. There is much blood
shed and artillery has been employed
in the streets of Barcelona TO quell
the outbreaks. The city Is terror
stricken. The revolutionists are &C.
ported to be fighting desperately be-
hind barricades. King Alfonso has
tened back to Madrid from San Sc
bastian today and issued a decree
proclaiming martial law and the sus-
pension Of constitutional guarantee
throughout Spain. Orders have been
given to the governors Of the pro-
vinces to crush the revolution at any
cost without hesitation and without
pity. Today marks q black chapter
in Spain's history, for there was a
tragedy at home and abroad. The
king reaches here in time to learn
that part of his army at Melilla had
had a bloody battle with the Moors,
which though finally victory for the
Spaniards, cost the lives Of IL officers
and a total of 200 Spaniards killed or
wounded. An exact estimate of the
dead and wounded in the clashes be-
tween the troops and rebels in Cata-
lonia is impossible owing to the rigid
censorship. The centre Of the rebel
lion is Barcelona, to which place the
Governor John A. Johnson of
Minnesota, while making Chautau-
qua address at Galesburg, ILL.,, few
days ago, had the following to say in
regard to the tariff: I'm my opinion,
the time is not far OFF when the peo-
pie, regardless Of party ties, will be in
unison on the tariff question. There
will be agreement on the principle
that manufacturers and laboring men
are entitled to protection Of duties
equal to the differences in wages here
and abroad, which will give them
protection against cheap foreign la
Dor. They should have this much
and nothing more. A commission of
experts will be appointed, skilled in
computing these wage differences
and fixing corresponding duties. This
will put the system on the basis of
equity and remove it from politics. ]
do not think the Illinois senators are
representing the Illinois people on
this question. With but one excep-
ton, ! believe the congressional del
egation from my state is right. I am
strongly for the income tax and be-
lieve the Minnesota legislature will
be for the constitutional amendment.
! am opposed to the corporation tax,
both because Of the source from
which 1t emanates and because 1t is,
in my judgment, unjust"
= Washington, July 81: The worlds IS
aeroplane record for two men as to
both time and distance, was broken
this evening in beautiful flight Of
one hour, IL minutes, 40 seconds-up-
wards Of so miles, at a speed averag-
ing about 40 miles an hourly Or
Vile Wright at Fort Myer, with
Lieut.. Frank P. Lahm Of the army
signal corps as passenger. The for
brother, Wilbur, joint inventor with
him Of the machine in which both
achievements were performed at Le-
mans, France, with Prof. Painleve OF
the French institute as passenger.
That iight was l hour, 9 minutes, 81
seconds. Wilbur was an eager spec
tator Of today's fight by his brother.
You just scotched your brothers
record without really damaging 1t
much" remarked a newspaper man
to Orville, after the flight. That's
all we meant to do" replied Orville,
with a smile, which his big brother
appreciatively duplicated. The cheer
ing which heralded the setting Of a
new mark in the conquest of the air
was led by President Taft in person,
who had sat, an intensely interested
spectator, throughout the fight, and
who insisted at its conclusion upon
personally congratulating the broth
ers upon their success.
- Washington, July 2S: After
working for nearly three weeks at
what proved to be one of the longest
and most anxious tasks ever exper-
fenced in tariff building, the majori-
ty members Of the conference COM
mittee on the Payne-Aldrich bill
brought their labors to sudden close
at o'clock tonight. Ali day long
the conferees had struggled with the
question of bringing down the house
rates on gloves and the senate rates
on lumber, to figures they felt would
meet with executive approval. In
this effort they failed. Lumber was
made dutiable at rates only little be-
low those named by the senate bill,
and there was a very slight shading
from the house rates on gloves of
good quality. Although not admitted
by the conferees, the general impress
sion drawn from a hurried trip to see
Mr.. Taft was that Messrs. Aldrich
and Payne had been authorized by
their colleagues to incorporate in the
conference report such figures as
could be agreed upon with the presi-
dent, in so far as they came within
range of what the leaders believe will
be acceptable in the house and SEN
ate. 1t was announced officially that
the Democratic members Of the con-
ference committee would be called in
session to morrow. In view of Pres
ident Taft's utterances, senate and
house leaders were predicting tonight
that the conference rates on gloves
and lumber would not prove satisfac-
tory to him.
Washington special of 2Sth to
Spartanburg Herald: The Washing
ton Times this afternoon published a
story to the effect that Senator Till
man who was reported a day or two
ago as critically i'll at his home at
nif