Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-06

DAYS WIFI COuN IIS
she stiffened, her eyes glazed and none
Of the familiar tests showed any signs
of life. The undertaker's assistant was
just tying white crepe on the street
door when the father bolted out for the
doctor.
Boston, December 4: Mrs. Mary
Baker Glover Eddy, founder and leader
of Christian science, died late last
night at her home in Chestnut Hill.
Natural causes" explain the death,
according to DR.. George l.. West, a
district medical examiner who was
summoned few hours after Mrs. Eddy
died. Later the doctor added to his
statement that the more important
cause was probably pneumonia. The
news of Mrs. Eddy's death was made
known simultaneously by Judge Cliff
ford P. Smith, first reader of the
church, at the close of the morning
service, and by Alfred Farlow of the
Christian Science Publication compa-
ny, in a statement to the press. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Farlow, Mrs. Eddy
passed away at quarter before II last
night.
Walter Archer, 17-years old, fell
700 feet in an aeroplane of his own
invention at Salida, Colo, last Satur-
day and was instantly killed. Nearly
every bone in his body was broken.
Archer's machine was driven by elec-
tricity, furnished by a power compa-
nys plant. A coil of wire 700 feet long
connected the power plant with the
aeroplane. Archer, when he made his
ascent attempted to manoeuver within
the radius of the wire. He ventured a
trifle too high and the wire snapped,
leaving him without power to operate
the propellers. With little experience
as an aviator he lost control Of the ma
chine, which turned over, dashing him
to death on a pile of rocks below. Ar
cher had constructed his machine on
original lines and had built it of odds
and ends of material taken from the
mines in which his father worked.
Some interesting results of scien-
tific forestry have been collected by D.
e. Hutchins in a report on a plan to
reforest Cyprus. The German forests,
covering about 35,000,000 acres, yield
S110,000,000 a year, and the rapid in
crease of area and productiveness JUS
titles the hope that the present i'm
portation of SS0,000, 900 of timber into
Germany will soon be unnecessary.
The spruce forest of the Erzgebirge
mountains, supplying 2,12S cubic feet
per acre from growing stock, seems to
lead in average yield. This land is
worth not more than 81 an acre for or
dinary farming or paSturage, but gives
a net annual profit of about SO an acre
from the judicious thinning out of the
timber. In France, the coniferous
forest Of Besancon gives a net income
of about SIG an acre. A young forest
of 1850 acres on Mount CentouX in
Provence, planted between 1863 and
1878, is not only already profitable,
yielding a return of about $4,000 a
year, but has quite transformed the
neighboring country. Springs have re-
appeared, with restored fertility, and
a remarkable increase in the value of
the lowlands.
James a. Patten of Chicago, Eu-
gene Scales of Texas, William Z.
Brown of New Orleans and others
were indicted again yesterday by a
Federal grand jury charged with con-
merce in available cotton during the
last four months of the crop year end
ing September IS, 1910. The indict-
ment was actually returned August
4. last. but did not go into effect until
it was opened today. The accused.
With their counsel appeared before
Judge HOugh in the criminal branch
of the United States district court and
entered tentative pleas of not guilty.
They have until December g TO de-
mur and arguments on the demurrer
will be heard on the third Monday in
January 1911. The original indiCt-
ment was found in May last, but the
defendants objected that the special
grand jury which returned it had
been improperly drawn and the gov
ernment, fearing that the courts
might find the plea in abatement well
taken, decided to resubmit the evil
dence to another grand jury, which
in due course handed down the indiCt-
ment opened today. 1t contains eight
counts instead of five and lessons the
number of defendants by two, omit
ting Sydney j. Harman and Charles
A. Kittle, yet naming besides Patten
Scales and Brown, Frank B. Hayne
and Col. Robert NJ. Thompson, all OF
whom were originally indicted.
Because the Western Union Tel
egraph company failed to transmit a
message from Detroit to Kansas City,
Mo, after accepting it, the supreme
court of the United States holds the
telegraph company liable for more
than $500 damages. The company re-
ceived 40 cents to send the message.
The Commercial Milling company, of
Detroit, gave the Western Union
Telegraph company a message there
TO be delivered TO a grain elevator
company in Kansas City, Mo. The
message got as far as Chicago, where
it was lost. AS a result the Detroit
company claimed it had been dam
aged $4,000 by the failure thus to
make a purchase of wheat. The mes
sage was written on a telegraph blank,
which contained an agreement that in
case of non-deivery the telegraph
company would be liable only for the
amount received for sending the mes
sage. The trial court awarded judg-
ment Of several hundred dollars hold
ing that the contract was invalid, be-
cause il was in conflict with state
law that regulated the liability. In
the supreme court Of Michigan it was
held by an evenly divided court that
inasmuch as congress had passed no
law fixing the liabilities for monde
livery. it was proper for state to do
so. and the judgment wdS affirmed.
The supreme court approved the
judgment of the Michigan court.
Members of the Calhoun family
that John G. Calhoun made famous.
appeared Friday before the supreme
court of the United States i'm an en-
deaVOr to regain possession Ol the
calhoun Plantation" in Greenwood
county. South Carolina. The argu-
merts were made in the supreme
court chamber, formerly the senate
chamber. the very room in which
John c. Calhoun so often triumphed
i'm debate The plantation was own
ed by Downs Calhoun when he died
i'm 1850. He had made will leaving
his lands to his two sons for life and
then to their legitimate issue Will
liam c. Calhoun. Edwin Calhoun.
jamie Lock and John c. Calhoun of
Georgia. Mary r. Trimble and Emma
r. Stolenweck of Alabama and Dora