Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-15
Scraps and faets.


receipts fell away to 5000 and of these
two carloads brought the top prices.
The eastern demand was unabatcd with
utter impOssibility to meet it. Hogs
that were in past years considered de-
cidedly poor quality sold for $1,000.
Shippers to the east were willing TO
pay almost any price for pork of any
s,rt.
- Kansas City. March IA: Mrs. Mary
Albert. a grocer of ArmOurdale kan.'
who carried her money in her apron
pocket and boasted to friends that she
wa, not going to permit the banks to
rob her, was murdered and robbed in
her store by an unidentified negro this
afternoon 1t was Mary's eagerness TO
let people know that she did not trust
banks that cost her life. The negro
took the savings after cutting her
throat with a razor. The special, large
pocket in which Mary carried her
wealth of more than a thousand dol
lars. was ripped from the apron with
the bloody razor.
A newspaper man may have stat
ue erected in his honor at the Ma
tional Capitol. bill having been intro
duced by Representative Douglass OF
Ohio. appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose The man was Januarlus
Aloysius MacGahan, whose descriptions
of the atrocities practiced upon the
BulgarianS by the Turks attracted the
attention of VIM. Gladstone, resulted in
English recognition of Bulgaria's free
dom. and won for their author the title
of The Liberator OF the BulSarians.
MacGahan was a correspondent for the
London Daily News at Constantinople.
He died there in 1873, and in 1884 his
body was brought TO America at the
expense of this government and inter-
red at New Lexington, o. The Bull
garians celebrate his memory annually
with a requiem mass.
New York. March IA: The plan 10
substitute electric engines for steam
locomotives on all of the hundreds OF
trains that enter the Grand Central
station daily became an accomplished
fact today, when the new electric SER
vice on the Harlem railroad between
this CITY and White Plains was put
into operation. The New Haven road,
which also uses the Grand Central
station for its New York ter
minal. has used electricity in running
its trains into this city for several
Of alantripitV
by the Harlem railroad was signalized
today by the running OF an ofhclal
train between New York and White
Plains, carrying several hundred men,
bers of the Westchester county Cham
Der of Commerce, representatives or
the New York Central lines, and a
number of invited guests. The train
was made up of heavy new steel cars
which the railroad has mad construct
ed especially for the service.
- Former Attorney General Charles j.
Bonaparte has been retained to defend
Pink Franklin, a negro, of OranSeburg,
S. c., who is appealing to the United
States supreme court to have set aside
a death sentence imposed upon him.
Franklin was convicted in 1907 of hav-
ing murdered Henry E. Valentine,
special constable, who was attempting
TO arrest him on a charge Of violating
a labor contract. The hearing will be
in April. This case excited intense in
terest when it was heard in Orange
burg in September. 1907, Judge J. c.
Klugh presiding. The testimony show
ed that Franklin shot Valentine with
out warning, as the latter passed a
door inside the negro's house. Jacob
Moorer of OranSeburg. and Adams OF
Columbia. two colOred lawyers, de-
Tended Franklin, who was charged with
violating the labor contract law and
for whom Valentine had warrant at
the time of the shooting. Judge Braw-
ley had already declared the labor con-
tract law unconstitutional, but the
supreme court of this state, not hav-
ing yet rendered its opinion in refer
ence to tine law, Judge Klugh over
ruled a motion to quaSh the indictment
on the ground that the constable was
endeavoring to make an unlawful ar
rest. Franklin has been in the Orange
burg Jail since committing the act.
Seventy thousand men, women and
grown up boys and girls, or half the
population of Spokane, Wash, have
been enlisted by the One Hundred and
Fifty Thousand club to participate in
the fourth annual cleaning day, the
date for which will be fixed at the next
meeting of the organization. c. Her
bert Moore, former mayor of Spokane,
who recently assumed the office of
president and general manager of the
organization without salary for year,
will have 500 captains of brigades in
the field within two weeks, to organize
the various squads for active work.
Mayor Nelson :. Pratt will declare
civic holiday early in April, when
manufacturing. wholesale and retail
concerns will donate the use of their
teams and vehicles to haul the gar
bage to the incinerating plant while
the cOmbuStible material will be de-
stroycd in the less frequented streets
and vacant lots. Three thousand men,
bcrs of the one Hundred and Fifty
Thousand club will assist in the yearly
house cleaning. which work is to be
completed in twenty-fOur hours, after
which 10000 pupils from the two high
and twenty-siX grade schools will plant
flower and grass seeds and set out
shade trees. vines and shrubs under the
direction of the city-beautful commit
tee of the organization. We mad more
than 10000 persons at work last
spring" said Mildred Simmons, sccre-
tary of the club, and at the close of
the day, Spokane was as neat and clean
as a new pin. Every part of the city
was covered by volunteer workers, and
the entire plan was carried out with