Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-25
Scraps and faets.

sat!onal graft investigation that
seems to be proving easy. The matter
has been on for two years or more, and
common knowledge has involved large
number of city councimen in free
and easy taking of graft. The district
attorney had ample proof; but to make
matters less complicated he issued
proclamation of immunity to all VINO
would confess. A dozen or more en-
councilmen confessed at once to nav
ing sold their votes on different occa-
sions at from $50 to $50 each. 1t Is
understood that quite number OF
prominent bankers are mixed up in the
affair also; but up TO this time all nave
been laying low and it Is expected that
when the district attorney gets busy
with the information already developed
through the confessions of grating
councilmen. there will be some sensa-
tional disclosures extremely emoar-
RAISING to people higher up.
Atlanta, Ga, March %: "A major
ity of the members of congress have
personally pledged themselves to vote
for parcels post and postal savings
banks, and now that they can no
longer cite Cannonism as a cause tor
delay, we are going to find out why
those reforms, in which everybody pe-
lieves, are not forthcoming, declared
Charles S. Barrett, president OF the
National Farmers Union, tonight MI.
Barrett says he has not been so sure
that Cannonism, rather than lnsin-
cerity, was responsible for the tallure
of congressman to enact Legislation
which a majority was pledged to faVor'
adding. IF some of our friends III
congress have simply been promising
for effect. then we will smoke them out
and expose their duplicity." Mr.. Bar
rett attributes to party jealous, some
of the opposition to the postal savings
bank measure. "One party does not
want another party to get credit tor
achieving certain reforms and VIII loo-
by to prevent such an occurrence lie
said. But this sort of political JOCK
ewing has got to stop. The national
welfare is paramount to the interests
of all parties"
Rome, Ca, March %: Claiming to
nossess an affidavit in which the young
girl says that she falsely accused the
defendant at the instance OF MS enc
mics, lawyers for Jack Worthlnston'
sentenced to twenty years for allegeu
assault upon Miss Rosa Elrod, will I'M
mediately file application for pardon
for their client with the state prison
commission. The attorneys for the
defense allege that the father OF the
voung woman has also signed an affi-
davit substantiatins the reported con-
fession of mis- daughter. 1t Is claimed
that the girls father will sign the Pc
tition for Worthingtons pardon. The
supreme court has just handed down
q decision refusing to grant WorthinS-
ton a new trial. The refusal OF the
supreme court is to be followed by the
presentation of the plea for the paruoI
some time this week. Worthlngtoh
was convicted on the charge OF assault,
and his uncle "Dink" Worthington,
who was charged with being party
TO the crime, was acquitted. Miss Elrod
now states, so it is said, that she ac-
cused Worthington falsely, that her
testimony was false and that she was
induced to make the representations at
the instigation of an enemy OF WORTH
instOn. whose name she does not men,
ton.
An immense air cruiser to carry
from so to 60 persons, and intended 10
travel at from A to so miles an hour'
is approaching completion at Trlef'
Germany, and will be launched this
spring. 1t introduces an entirely new
departure in the construction OF ar
ships, as it is built of iron. The Ves-
sci is expected to achieve even more
successful results than those or the
rigid aluminium type built by Count
Zeppelin, on which it is cniefy MOD
eled. The skeleton of the balloon Is
formed of rolled iron piping. The CEN
tral hollow iron shaft Is 4lO teet III
length and about 16 inches in dame
ter. There are sixteen other side
shafts in the framework, each OF them
about 32S feet long and inches IN
diameter These are Joined to the CEN
tral shaft by a lattice work OF iron.
The gas is contained in twelve ring
balloonets, in the same manner as IN
the Zeppelin craft. The balloonets are
twenty-seven feet long by forty 1eel
in diameter, and they lie end to END
along the body of the airShip. Inc
vessel is provided with five motors,
developing altogether $50 horsepower
one of them, of eighty horsepower
drives the propeller, which is ftted
with the bows. The other four develop
100 horsepower each, and are utilized
to mt into movement the sixteen ver-
tical and eight horizontal screw planes
which steer the ship upward and down.
ward and starboard and port. The en-
tire weight of the framework, motors
and equipment, will be thirty tons.
One of the most bitter personal at
tacks upon Speaker Cannon thus far,
was made in the house just before
adjournment last Tuesday, by Repre-
sentative Shackelford of Missouri. Il
am not talking about Cannonism,
shouted Mr.. Shackelford, looking
straight into the eyes of Speaker Can
non, VINO occupied seat on the Re-
publican side, Il am talking about
Cannon" Mr. Prince of Illinois, VINO
was presiding during the consideration
of the pension appropriation bill, rap
ped the Missouri member to order,
whereupon Mr.. ShackelfOrd changed
his language, saying, Il am talking
about the gentleman from Illinois, the
Hon. Joseph c. Cannon" As Cato had
ended all h.s speeches by declaring
that Carthage must be destroyed, MI.
Shackelford said, for years he had been
declaring that CannOnism must be de-
stroyed if Republicanism and repreSen-