Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-17
Scraps and fatts.

years old Before Kocher's discovery
goitrr was considered ncurable. He was
the first. about 1880. to attack this
plague i'm the Valais canton and to de-
ny that the taking away of the goiter
at first provoked CretiniSm and then
led TO death. He discovered the cause
of these phenomena. At the surgical
congress of Berlin he communicated
the results of his researches. He show
ed that the goiter could be removed,
but that il was necessary 10 guard
against the eXtirpation of the gland to
which it was attached. This Skillful
surgeon has made more than 1000
cures of this kind.
In the United States district court
at Wilmington. y. c., last Thursday
afternoon Everett McAllister, well
known young white man, twenty-nine
years of age, plead guilty to rihing
letters i'm the postotfice here, and was
sentenced to twelve months in the
Federal prison in Atlanta. McAllister,
while admitting his guilt, made the
strange defense that he was coca
cola and cocaine fiend, and introduced
an expert to testify that he was such,
and that both the use of the beverage
and the drug had harmful effect on
him and made his mentality of low
type McAliSter was a trusted post
office clerk. and rifled a number of
letters. He was finally caught by de-
tectives by means of decoy letter. He
claimed that he committed the crime
while under the influence of drugs
and knew nothing about ii. In view
of this plea, his past good character.
and the fact that he has wife anG
baby, the light sentence was imposed.
- The rules committee was unable
To agree Saturday on the question OF
consideration of the Scott bill TO pro-
hibit dealings in cotton futures. Con-
sequently nothing further will be done
for a couple of weeks. Representa-
tive Underwood of Alabama, MEM
Der of this committee made an effort
to have the committee report rule
providing that the bill should be con-
SlueTeu ny the llOuSt llIllilSNltiNSiS 90
ter the passage of the sundry civil
appropriation bill now pending. There
were many objections to this, one OF
them being that the postal savings
bank bill and the anti-injunctiOn bill,
which are part of President Tafts leg
islative programme, might be ready
for consideration and action at that
time and should have the right OF
way. 1t was finally decided by the
committee that just before the sun
dry civil bill is disposed of-when the
Panama items near the end of the
bill are reached-the committee shall
meet and act on the proposed rule.
This carries the matter over until the
end of the debate on the sundry civil
bill, which is expected to last at least
two weeks longer.
- Paris, May 13: The damage caus-
ed by the storms all over the country
is considerable. Reports of disasters
TO fishing fleets continue 10 come in
from all points. At Limoges there is
considerable anxiety, as the rivers
Vienne Gartempe and BriOnne are over
flowing. The peasants as we'll as the
population of the provincial towns at
tribute the disaster to Halley's comet
and are waiting in mortal fear May is,
the date on which it is announced the
comet will meet the earth. a dispatch
from Turin to the Messagero says
there is the greatest alarm among GER
tain classes owing TO the approach OF
Halley's comet TO the earth Many
people who believe that the tail of the
comet is composed of poisonous gases
which will kill everything human and
animal in its path have provided them
selves with supplies of oxygen and
bought several days supplies of provi-
sions. They propose to lock them
selves in their rooms until the danger
has passed. The panic in Turin has
reached such a stage that the Gazetta
di Torino publishes an editorial today
in which it pledges its honor that the
comet will not destroy humanity.
- New York. May 13: Fritz Angus
tus Heinze was acquitted in New York
last night of charges of misapplyinS
funds of the Mercantile National
Bank, while he was president of the
institution in 1908, and he was clear
ed of the charge of over certifying the
checks of his brothers firm, otto
HeimZe * Co. \ jury in the criminal
branch of the United States circuit
court. after u trial lasting nearly three
weeks, found him not guilty at $50
o'clock last night and he was dis
charged. HeinZe, jubilant, issued this
statement concerning his acquittal: Il
am greatly pleased with the verdict,
but not at all surprised. The thing l
most regret is the long delay in bring
ing the case to trial, This delay cost
me between $4,OOO,OOO and S5,OOO,OOO.
1t is possible some persons who were
anxious TO see me convicted will be al
most as we'll satisfied with this as
though | had been found guilty, as the
ruimaliOn of my credit seems to have
been one of the objects most viciously
aimed AT. / appreciate the loyalty Of
my friends who have stuck to me
through it all, and regret exceedingly
the temporary loss which they have
suffered in the depreciation i'm the price
OF the securities IN which | have been
Interested"
- Boston, May 10: Agreeing that no
harmful effect is 10 be experienced on
next Wednesday with the passage of
the earth through the tail of Halleys
comet, New England astronomers APP
pear not to concur as to the possibility
of luminous display similar to north
ern lights. Prof. David +. Todd of
Amherst college thinks the aurora cf-
feet probable. Prof. Robert W. Will
son of the Harvard college observatory
declared today there may be Il darken-
ing Of the atmosphere, while Prof. Ed