Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-25
Scraps aud faets.
: ouite an extensive boycott has been

modify. The boycott originated with
the Bricklayers' Union of Cleveland,
o., and has spread to Kansas City.
The boycotters pledge themselves to
abstain from fresh meat for thirty
days and then go down for potatoes
and other substantials served in all
the different ways possible. AS yet the
livestock market has shown no effect
from the slump.
Judge Hough, Of the United States
district court, rendered decision in
New York. Saturday, quashing an in
dictment against F. A. Heinze, the A.
nancier and promoter, on the ground Of
the presence of unlawful persons in the
grand jury room The indictment was
for violation Of the national banking
laws. 1t had developed that the grand
jury had before it John w. Fernsler, an
expert accountant in the capacity Of
expert witness and this was the ground
on which the indictment was quashed,
the Judge holding that the presence Of
the accountant was prejudicial to the
rights of the defendant. Martin W..
Littleton, counsel for Chas. w. Morse,
recently sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment in the Federal prison In
Atlanta, Ga, for the same offense Of
which Heinze is charged, says the same
conditions obtained at the finding Of
the indictment against Morse, and that
if the fact can be proved, he will move
that there was no valid indictment
against his client.
Williamstown, Mass, January %:
Declaring himself in general terms
against the charge Of being too great
a stickler for the observance Of the
law In the administration Of public
affairs, in an address delivered here
tonight, Secretary Ballinger struck
back at his accusers in language as
pointed as the occasion would permit.
His remarks were rendered especially
significant because Of the fact that
they were made on the eve Of the
proposed congressional investigation
into their authors conduct Of the in
terror department. He mentioned no
names but made free use Of the term
"muckraker' as connected with poll
ticians and the press. The address
was delivered before the Good Gov
ernment club of williams college. The
subject was "The Executive Function
Under the Constitution" Mr.. Ballin-
ger placed himself squarely on the
proposition that when the public Of
ficers transcend the powers with which
the constitution and the laws clothe
him he becomes a menace to popular
rights and to all the safeguards sur
rounding them," and declared that
are to some people inconvenient and
often obnoxious especially when they
obstruct the pathway to selfish ambi-
ton"
Representative Burleson, Of Texas,
on Saturday appeared before the house
committee on agriculture in behalf Of
his bill repeating the tax on oleomar-
garine, which tax, he asserted, was
responsible for the present high price
Of butter throughout the country. Be-
fore this tax was imposed, Mr.. Burle-
son said, there was manufactured an
nually 130,000,000 pounds Of oleomar-
garine, which he characterized as a
pure and wholesome food product, and
which sold for from IL to Is cents
per pound. The price Of butter was
then 20 to 80 cents per pound. The
production Of oleomargarine has been
diminished Sc per cent, he said, as
a result Of the tax, and the price Of
butter has gone up from % cents to
so cents per pound. Passage Of the
law was secured, Mr.. Burleson charg-
ed, by the National Dairy union and
by "a stupendous lobby. which it is
said, expended a vast sum Of money"
Mr.. Burleson said that he represented
many associations Of cattle growers,
Cotton Seed Crushers' association,
National Retail Grocers' association
and western and southern Chambers
of Commerce in demanding the repeal
Of the tax and the lowering Of the
price Of butter. The committee will
hear evidence on the Burleson bill on
February 9.
st. Louis, January %: With all
trails leading toward st. Louis, the
four masked men, who held up and
robbed the Missouri Pacific train near
Eureka, Mo-, last night, are believed
to be hiding in this city. Two hun
dred men and six blood-hounds
searched the greater part of st. Louis
county today. The robbers mounted
the cab Of the engine, and after bind
ing the engineer and fireman, detach-
ed the mail and express cars. The
passenger coaches were left at the
point where the hold-up occurred, and
the mail and detached express cars
Castlewood, Mo-, where they were
looted. The clues which developed in
the search for the men, who are be-
lieved to have obtained $4,000 by
cutting open sixteen mail pouches,
show that boat, in which the ban
dts may have floated down the Mera-
mec river to a point convenient to st.
Louis was stolen Friday night few
miles from the scene Of the robbery,
and the bloodhounds took up a trail
which led towards this city. 1t is also
thought the robbers may have used an
automobile in escaping. Rewards ag-
gregating $1,000 were offered today
for the arrest and conviction Of the
outlaws. Governor Hadley offered
$500 for each man, the maximum re-
ward allowed by the state, the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway company $500
for each man, and the United States
postoffice inspection department $1,000
for the capture. Postoffice Inspector
w. w. Dickson announced that the
loot of the bandits may amount to
$4,000. A check on the registered
mail pouches was in progress tonight.
- The English sparrow is the pirate
Of the air, just as the rat is the free