Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-09
Scraps aud faets.

and has not been recaptured. He Is
supposed to be in hiding in the lake
regions. The military at Fort Regan
has been notified and are instituting a
vigorous search for the fugitive
Rockwall, Texas, March Z: After
having been identified by Mrs. Arthur
Mckinney as the negro who attempt
ed a criminal assault upon her Friday
morning, Anderson Ellis was taken
from the Rockwall county jail tonight
and secured to an iron stake driven in
TO the earth and was burned to death
I'm the presence of about thousand
persons. Earlier in the evening VIII
Clark, a negro, was shot and instantly
killed when his father Andrew Clark
refused permission to posse to searcn
his premises on the assumption tnat
Ellis was concealed there. People were
here from several towns and from Dali
las. Collin and Hunt as well as Rock
wall county to witness the execution
of the negro. Ellis admitted his guilt
but refused to make a statement or TO
leave farewell messages for his rela-
tives. He did not utter cry as the
pile of cordwood, which had been well
saturated with kerosene was set afre,
nor did he show loss Of nerve as the
flames cooked his flesh. He was dead
within nine minutes after the torch
had been applied.
Pensacola, Fla, March Z: Deter
mined to exhaust every means in an
effort to rid itself of that dread foe OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the state OF
Florida Is witnessing a vigorous cru
sade against this disease. The cam
paign is being waged in every part OF
the state with exhibits illustrating the
rayages of tuberculosis and with lee
lures describing the progress OF this
insidious disease and the methods nee
essary to combat 1t. The preliminary
step In this aggressive movement Will
be the transfer Of the National Anti
Tuberculosis associations headquar-
ters, with its exhibits, from st. John to
Pensacola during the remainder OF the
80 days campaign in this city. AT a
half dozen cities along the east coast
there win be vigorous demonstrations
against consumption with the estap-
lishment of recruiting stations for the
long continued campaign which will
follow this preliminary movement.
Tallahassee, Lake City, Ocala, Gaines
Vile, Miami and Key West will be
made local centres from which local
skirmish parties will scorr practically
all Of the state.
United States District Attorney
Healing Of Indiana, resigned last Fri
day rather than participate in bring
ing Delavan Smith and Joseph Pulit-
zer to Washington for trial in the Pan
anna libel. The letter Of resignation
says that for eight years the writer
has prosecuted without fear or favor,
sometimes against personal friends.
When against friends, however, the
prosecution was only after he was sat
isfied they were guilty. In the present
instances he does not know as to the
guilt or innocence Of the newspaper
men, but resigns because he thinks
the government has no right to prose-
cute them In any place except at their
homes. 'I am not in accord" the let
ter says, with the government attempt
to put q strained construction on the
law to drag the defendants from their
homes to the seat Of government. !
believe the principle involved Is dan
gerous." In the Elkhart bank case Mr..
Healing prosecuted and convicted all
the officers, including Walter Brown,
his personal friend. c. w. Miller, the
attorney general Of Indiana, will be
recommended by Mr.. Beveridge to
succeed Mr.. Healing.
New York Evening Sun, Friday:
The case Of the government against
the American Sugar Refining company,
charging the falsifying Of scales to de-
prive the government Of customs duties
on sugar importations, went to the
jury at noon today. In his charge,
Judge Holt told the jury that If they
found that any Of the directors or 9TH
er officers Of the sugar company knew
Of the existence Of any device for
tampering with the scales they must
find the defendant guilty. If, on the
other hand, they should find that Rich
ard Parr and Richard Whalley, the
government agents, had put up a
plant" on the defendant corporation
by boring the seventeen holes in the
stanchions of the scales, they should
bring in a verdict in favor Of the de-
fendant. The exact amount Of penal
ties asked for by the government was
$134,116.O3. After being out an hour
and half the jury brought in a ver-
dict against the company for the full
amount. John B. Stanchfield of coun-
sci for the sugar company made mo-
ton for a new trial which Judge Holt
promptly denied. The defense will
appeal at once and has sixty days in
which to prepare 1t.
Dallas, Texas, March 6: Josephine
Hood, the pretty North Carolina vic
tim Of the bigamist and bogus Lord
mother in Vera Cruz, Mexico, and they
are now en- route home. Mrs. Hood
arrived here yesterday and was not
long in getting trace Of her daughter,
who despite many kilograms from
friends and relatives had endeavored
to hide herself. Her identity here has
been hidden under an assumed name,
and no one suspected that the pretty
and demure little woman was other
than she represented herself to be-
Miss Hood sought seclusion and did
not wish her friends or relatives to
know her whereabouts, preferring to
fight life's battle alone and unknown
There was a most affectionate scene
when mother and daughter met. Both
broke down, and as they embraced
broke into tears. Their sobs were most
heartrending. They were left alone
and for three hours talked over the
events of the past three years. The
daughter was assured there was moth