Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-29
Scraps and fafts

to the department of commerce and
labor, Calcutta Is preparing to make
a business Of brown ratskins, which,
Vice Consul General Perry says, are
especially adapted for the making OF
purses, gloves and other articles of
feminine use and adornment. The
traffic in brown skins already amounts
to s250,OOO a year and advertisements
have appeared in newspapers calling
for the skins in lots Of 100 to 10000.
New York, October 26: Halley's
comet Is now so near the earth that
II may be observed in a short time
through an ordinary telescope, ac-
cording to reports received from dill
ferent astronomical observatories. Al
though it has been speeding toward the
earth with a tremendous velocity ever
since II was rediscovered on the night
of September II, It is still far too re-
mote to be seen with the naked eye
But the Harvard college observatory
has issued a bulletin stating that Prof.
E. E. Barnard, Of the Yorkes' Obser-
vatory. obtained visual observations
of 1t on the 18th and 18th OF this
month. On these two dates Prof.
Barnard found that the comet was
not fainter than the 13s magnitude,
having a diameter of fifteen seconds,
and while it exhibited no elongation,
Il was less definite and bright in the
middle"
Mat Henson, the negro who ac-
companied Peary on his final dash for
the pole, has started out on the lectur-
ing platform. Last week 1t was an
nounced that he would lecture at the
Hippodrome in New York and that
he would be prepared to answer all
questions. The audience. when Hen
son arose, seemed determined to make
him fulfill this part OF the pro-
gramme. Before he had gotten start
ed into his lecture, questions began
to pour in upon him from every part
of the room. So rapidly were they
showered upon him that he did not
get to even begin his lecture, and af-
ter several vain attempts to 90 so,
lasting some forty-five minutes, the
lights were turned out. A fair sam
ple of his opinions regarding what
me and Peary" did and Of that fell
low Cook" may be found in the
answer given to the question as to
how he knew Cook did not reach the
pole. He said: well, we knew that
he had sneaked up north ahead of us
and we knew that he had said he had
climbed Mt. Mckinley when he had
not. We knew that If he bluffed one
time he would bluff another"
Confessing that he murdered Anna
Luther Mueller on April 9, 1908, Otto
Mueller on Monday cleared UP one of
the greatest murder mysteries that
the New York police have had 70 deal
with in years. On October II near
Islip, L. l., the bullet-riddled skeleton
of a woman was found. 1t was soon
identified as the remains Of Anna Lu-
ther Mueller, formerly Of Altoona,
Prussia, and the supposed wife Of OF
TO Mueller, an architect. Then began
a search for Mueller. 1t was learned
that he had married the murdered wo-
man in Newark, N. j., February, 1908
and gone to Europe for two months,
after which he returned to Newark In
April, then moved to Long Island,
and finally firing of her he shot her
to death. Mueller already had a wife
to whom he was attached, and she
knew him as Fred Gebhardt, and 1t
is stated that he is known to have been
married to other women, but as none
Of his other wives can be found 1t is
thought that he probably murdered
them after securing such property as
they had. Mueller's signed confession
I'm part, is as follows: About Decem-
ber, 1907, I first met Anna Luther.
We were married in February, 1908,
and went to Europe. We returned on
April 6, 1908. She went to Henry
Werpupp's, Newark, n. ]. I returned
to my home and wife in Astoria. I
met her again on April s, in Newark,
and we went to gath street, and then
to Jamaica, l.. I. We stayed there till
the next day. On April 9 we went to
Bay Shore, and we walked, and show
ed her some property. got into some
argument with her about some money
matters, and turned away and want
ed to go back. She followed me up,
screaming, and I shot her in the head.
l want to state l did not kill Anna
Luther for her money, as the news
papers have stated. My reason for
killing Anna Luther was, didn't want
to live without my first wife any long
er. And I told Anna Luther out In
Bay Shore, L. l., that I was married,
and had wife and children, and must
leave her (Anna Luther). She scream
ed and ran after me and kissed me
and pulled me back and I shot her"
- Harbin, October 26: Prince Hir-
obumi Ito, former Japanese president
general of Korea and probably ia
pans foremost statesman, was assas-
sinated here this afternoon by Ko-
rean who had followed him for the
express purpose Of killing him. The
motive of the assassin was revenge.
The assassin was arrested. Prince
Hirobumi Ito who was president of
the privy council of Japan, left Toxic,
Oct. 16, for a tour of Manchuria. He
was to have arrived at Harbin today
(Tuesday) where he was to have met
M. Kokovsoff, the Russian minister of
finance. The conference it was said,
was at the behest Of Japan and Rus
sian foreign diplomats had attached
great Importance to it, although the
exact motives impelling Japan to pro-
pose the conference were not known.
The subjects to be discussed were not
suggested in the Japanese overtures
and NJ. Kokovsoff, it was said, had
barred political questions. He said he
was competent to discuss only finan-
cial and technical subjects, these COW
ering the status of the Manchurian
railroads AS for the emperor's trust
ed advisor, and the medium through