Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-27
Scraps and facts.


session Of the Inter state Cotton Seed
Crushers' annual meeting at Little
Rock, Ark. last Tuesday. The fore
stall the ravageS of the weevil as much
as possible DR.. Hunter suggested early
planting but his idea was COmbated
by J. NJ. VOlger of Alexandria. La. a
spirited tilt resulting and furnishing a
feature of the opening session. Mr..
Volger, insisted that late planting
would be best.
- Charleston, May "a: Firing from
the second story of his residence at No.
13 John street. and using a double
barrelled shot gun, Ben NJ. Picquet,
this afternoon shot and killed his som
in-law. Chas. w. Cooper, a man forty
years old. Picquet was at once arrest
ed at his home and the body of Cooper
taken to the morgue awaiting the cor
oners inquest. 1t appears that the
trouble arose over Cooper's wife, the
daughter Of PicQuet. whom it is al
legged was ill-treated by her husband
and sought protection in her fathers
nome this afternoon. Cooper appear
ed at his father-in-law's house. armed,
it is said, with a revolver, evidently
hunting trouble. He Is said to have
had a bad reputation as trouble
maker.
-" "Seventy-five per cent of all the
boys over 13 years in the Protestant
Sunday schools of the United States
are lost to the churcn and never make
professions of faith" Such a state
ment spoken by Eugene c. Foster Of
Detroit in one of the workers confer
ences Wednesday, which followed the
Worlds Sunday School convention, in
Washington, astonished Sunday school
workers from all parts of the earth.
That is the most astounding statement
have heard in this country" eXclaim-
ed an English delegate, who said he
was a Sunday school worker in Haver-
hill. Suffolk, England. There must be
something radically wrong with the
system which permits it. In England
we do not lose more than per cent.
IT have made that calculation after
study, observation and experience,
replied Mr.. Foster. Practically all the
delegates at the meeting agreed with
him.
-Lewisburg. W. Va, May "a: Faced
with a division amongst leaders that
seemed well nigh irreconcilable, the
general assembly of the Southern Pres
byterian church today postponed for
one year action on the question OF attl-
tude of the church toward marriage
and divorce. The resolution for post
nonement was based on the fact there
is not sufficient time for thorough de-
liberation on such an important ques-
ton. The same committee when mas
had the subject under consideration for
q wear was continued. That commit
tee had been unable to agree on a re-
port. two of it's members being in favor
of the assembly keeping hands of the
matter two in favor of recognizing
adultery as a ground for divorce
but allowing the guilty party to re-
marry when the church was convinced
of his repentance. and two had not
made UP their minds on the subject.
To remedy this condition DR.. r. A.
Webb of Louisville, DR.. w. 7. Hall OF
Columbia. S. c., and T. r. Sampson Of
Austin, Texas, were added to the con-
mittee.
Washington, May %: AN ignor-
ant ass, an unprincipled demagogue or
the paid hereling of baneful influence
is the way William p. Hackney OF
Winfield, Kan, who testified today be-
fore the house subsidy investigating
committee, characteriZes every man
in the United States who opposes the
principle of ship subsidy" The state
ment was made in pamphlet on the
rise and fall of the merchant marine
which Hackney wrote and circulated
and sent to members of congress,
newspapers and others, Ito jerk them
loose and set them thinking" as he eX-
pressed it today. Can you think OF
anything else such a man might De
called" sarcastically asked RepreSen-
tative Garrett of Tennessee. That's
stinger l put in to challenge public at
tention to the situation" replied the
witness. Mr.. Hackney's charges o1 IN
fIuencing congress, wine suppers.
etc. he admitted, were based on belief
and not on knowledge, he said, because
he had some knowledge of legisla-
tive matters" William Boyd and JUS
tus Ruperti. representing shipping IN
terests at New York disclaimcd any
knowledge of foreign lobbies. The
committee adjourned to meet June l,
when naval constructor G. j. Roberts
will be a witness.
Chicago. May 26: The private set
Element Of Theodore H. Waterman's
"suueeZe" in May wheat today caused
a remarkable decline in prices. The
unloading of 100000 bushels of Sep
tember wheat BY James \. and George
TT Patten. and the announcement Of
their withdrawal from the brokerage
firm of which they have been mem
bers for a generation. and also their
retirement at least temporarily. from
business. came coincidentally. Their
retirement is effective July l. The net
decline in prices ranged from - cents
in September to more than cents in
May wheat. Altogether the day in
wheat was one destined to tax" rank
with other momentous periods Of the
history of the Chicago board Of trade.
James A. Patten left his office tonight
wearing a smile. In his limousine he
had leisure to read headlines estimating
his losses at anywhere between $780,
600 to $1.2OO.OOO for the day. Asked
if he had anything to say about the
market, the Speculator laughed and
said: Just say don't know anything
about the market" Mr.. Patten admit
ted that ne came out second best in
contest with the bears. The extreme
declines today were 65 cents in May
and 5 cents in September. The CLOSE