Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-16
Scraps and fat5t.

Italian lahorer who was struck sever
al weeks ago 10y an automobile driven
by Robert TAFT, son of the president,
is now on his way t. Italy with $500
and expense money in his pocket Civ
en- him by President Taft His pas
sage second class on the Italia was
paid also by the president. The $500
was given as the equivalent of the
wages he might have earned for one
year. The expense money and the
ticket were thrown in for good meas
urc. Gregordio wanted to return to
Italy to see mis- home folks and the
president knew of no other way in
which he could better express his re-
gret over the accident than by prOvid-
ing the means for the trip.
- san Francisco. August 13: Judge
Lawlor signed commitments and the
sheriff took three of the leading law
yerS of San Francisco to the county
Jail for their recent OffenSe in speak
ing their minds i'm court. A. A. Moore
will spend ten days in Jail. and his
son. Stanley Moore, and J. J. Bar
rett will spend five days each. All
were counsel for Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railways, and
it was i'm CalhOun's automobile that
they were taken to Jail. Judge Law
lOr. last week, in refusing to dismiss
seventeen indictments for bribery
against Calhoun, took occasion from
the bench to declare he believed Cal
houn had bribed material witnesses
to stay outside the state after he had
failed to blow up one witness by hav-
ing his home dynamited. CalhOun's
three lawyers rose in turn and raked
the judge with invective and sarcasm
accusing him of doing dirty politics
on the eve Of election. Each scored
and the court room crowd applauded
but the judge got his inning by fin
ing them for contempt.
- Staunton, Va, Aug. 12: Federal
aid has been asked by StauntOn, fol-
lowing the opening of a third giant
hole in the heart of the city today,
making three cave-inS in all, in
twenty-four hours. Property worth
thousands of dollars has been de-
stroyed and it is feared the public
school and a fire house will go. a
message to the geological survey in
WASHINGTON asks for an expert to come
and advise the city. The postmaster
has also appealed to the supervising
architect of the treasury department,
as the Federal building here is near
one of the caves. the third. which
opened today, is the biggest in diam
eter. but not as deep as that by the
fire house, which is 100 feet deep. Two
of the orifices appear to be combining
into one though their edges have not
yet met. The third is in the rear OF
Professor c. L. Wilson's home, part
of which has broken away and fallen
in. The section of the town affected
is built on made ground, formerly a
marsh.
- The government derived $2S9,I2S,-
Ol5 from collections of internal reNe-
rnrnDratlun
during the fiscal year ended June 30
last, according to the preliminary re-
port of Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Cabell. made public tonight.
This is an increase of $43,5l5,296 over
the previous fiscal year. The receipts
for the fiscal year, with increases or
decreases over the previous fiscal year,
include the following: Spirits, $l4S.-
O29,2l2: increase $13,161,177. Cigars,
cigarettes, snuff and tobacco, $57.SS9.-
1852: increase $6,OO2,174. F'ermented
liquors, $6O,572,2S5; increase $3115,S17.
Oleomargarne. $1.099,50S: increase
$197,3 ,307. Miscellaneous, including cor
poration tax, opium, playing cards.
etc, $2l972,6S1: increase $21,O3S,599.
Illinois led the states in the aggregate
amounts of collections with $49, ,2l3,
the next nearest being New York $%6.-
157.224; Kentucky, $52,26O,27S; Indiana,
Ohio, $20,9S2,S45.
- Sulphur, Okla, August Is: Every
inch of land owned by Indians is look
ed upon as the legitimate prey of the
land grabbers" This statement was
made today by member of the COM
mittee appointed by the house of rep
resentatives To investigate Indian land
contracts. Besides the charges of
Senator Gore that he was offered $50
900 bribe to boost" the MCMurray
contracts in congress- the committed
is inquiring into Indian land cOndi-
tions. Some of the land grabbers'
schemes certainly should be called to|
the attention of congress" said a COM
mitteeman. One man, we have learn
ed, has become rich. He kept a list
of Indians who owned allotted lands.
Whenever an Indian died he rushed
into court, had a guardian appointed
and with the connivance of the guar
dian demanded that the land he sold
under a ridiculouSly low valuation for
a few hundred dollars He has bought
whole sections of land This man, who
is only one of many starting with mol
capital, now owns ten thousand acres
for which he paid the Indians no ade
Quate compensation. AS there are inl
Oklahoma something like 10000, 900
acres of Indian lands it seems abso-
lutely imperative that congress take
prompt steps to prevent further land
grabbing"
New York, August 13: Benny"
Prinz, a young balloonist, met a
horrible death yesterday evening at
the close of the aviation meet at AS
bury Park, y. J. In making u dOu
BILE parachute drop, the second para
chute failed to open and he fell more
than 1000 feet. AS the swaying body
neared the ground, it struck the limb
of an apple tree and the boys head
was transfiXed on the limb like an
apple on a spit. AS it struck the
ground the headless body was crushed
into an unrecOgniZable mass. PrinZ
was 26 years old and u daring bal
loonist. With Samuel Hartland of
Newark, he went up in hot air bal
loon. At the height of 1000 feet
Hartland cut loose with one parachute
and made successful landing.
Lightened by the drop of Hartland,
the craft shot up until it reached
about 1000 feet. Then PrinZ cut
loose. Those who saw his figure, say
he fell 500 feet before his first para
chute opened. He sailed slowly earth
ward for another thousand feet and
then cut loose again. There was an
other terrific drop of about 500 feet,
1t checked his fall for a second, then
the ropes snapped and the body of the
young man shot straight down. Over
and over the figure turned, faster, and
gaining momentum with each revO-
luton. He was shooting down head
first when he crashed into the tree,
impaling his head on limb. In the
headlesS trunk every bone was broken
Several of those who witnessed the
accident tainted from the horror of
the tragedy.
- Florence Nightingale, the famous
nurse of the Crimean war, and the
only woman who ever received the
British Order of Merit, died last Satur-
day at her home i'm London. Although
she had been an invalid for Il long
time. rarely leaving her room where
she passed the time in half rccum-
bent position and was under the con-
stant care of physician, her death
was somewhat unexpected. week
ago she WAS uuite sick but then i'm