Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-07
Straps and facts.

- Washington. October 4: In what
quantity. and how frequently may a
man indulge in whisky in Georgia be-
fore he may be said to use" it to eX-
cess. is one of the questions which the
supreme court of the United States
may feel itself called upon to consider
in a short time. Application has been
made to the court to review the judg-
ment of the Federal courts of South
Carolina, refusing to allow the estate
of DR.. Joseph =. Johnson, deceased ol
Dorchester county, S. c., to recover
$4,000 on an insurance policy issueC
by the State Mutual Life Insurance
company, a Georgia corporation. The
court directed verdict in favor oI
the company on the ground that DR.
Johnson in making application for
policy made fraudulent representations
as to his sanity. Attorneys for the es'
tate claimed that DR.. Johnson had not
been insane, but admitted that he was
once at an insane asylum for eighteer
days as a result of delirium tremens
produced by a sudden over indulgence
of whisky and not an excessive use OF
the liquor.
Beverly, Mass, October 4: Asso-
ciate Justice William Fl. Moody OF the
United States supreme court TO-DAY
rendered his resignation to President
Taft, to take effect November 20. The
President wrote Justice Moody now al
Magnolia, accepting the resignation
and expressing his high regard for the
retiring jurist. In retirement Justice
Moody will receive full pay of an ac-
tive member. of the court, $l2,OOO q
year 1t has been known since early
i'm the summer that Justice Moody
would retire. He personally maze
known his intentions to the president
and offered to resign at any time that
would be most convenient to the pres
ident. Mr.. Taft stated that he had no
intention of appointing any Federal
Justice until the regular session OF con-
gress had convened. He urged Justice
Moody to take his own time. The en-
abling act passed in behalf OF MT.
Moody. who has not served a suthclent
length of time to permit his retirement
under the ordinary process of law, eX-
pires late in November. Justice Moody
has been i'll for more than year.
san fTdllClSCO, oNN'pSA "
tives and others who are making ef-
forts to trail from this end the men
who secured dynamite from the Giant
Powder works previous to the destruc-
ton of the Los Angeles Times build
ing have revealed a chain of possibly
suspicious circumstances as to the
movements of the gasoline schooner
Kate, which may serve to connect the
vessel with the transportation OF the
,;e tn q
southern port, presumably San PEDRO.
Cant. p. ]. Burns Of the state launch,
Governor Gillett, stated to the detec-
tives today that he noted the Kate on
September % and 90 at anchor of
remote portion of the water front IN
Mission bay. He also declared that
a launch answering to the description
of the Peerless, or Pastime, the vessel
into which the Giant dynamite was
loaded, came out from the vicinity OF
the Kates anchorage on September 23
as his boat was passing. This was the
day on which the dynamite was taken
from the works by the Pastime. The
Kate sailed from San Francisco Sep
tember 25 and has not been seen or
heard of since. Clearance papers show
that she was bound for Gallagos is
lands in a turtle hunt under command
of Capt. Osterhaus, owner and naNiga-
tor.
Atlanta, Ga, October 5: Hoke
Smith was today elected to serve
second term as governor of Georgia
Incomplete returns indicate that GOV
Joseph NJ. Brown, who was defeated
for the gubernatorial nomination in
the August Democratic primary and
whose name was today placed before
the voters as an Independent Demo-
cratic candidate, probably received
majority of the votes cast in two of the
146 counties of the state. All OF the
regular Democratic nominees for state
and county offices were elected, the
vote for the Socialist ticket being in
consequential. Three constitutional
amendments were apparently adopted
by large majorities. One of these pro-
vides that counties may levy taxes in
support of high schools, the others be-
ing local in effect. The disaffection in
the Georgia Democracy, manifested in
the opposition to the regular nominee
for governor, was the most serious
party split in many years and resulted
in the vote being much larger than that
normally polled in a general election.
Governor Brown stated that the action
of Thomas Z. Watson and others in
placing his name before the voters as
an independent was without authori-
Zation, but he declined to state wheth-
er or not he would serve if elected.
He announced however, that he would
support no nominees of the party.
Tom Watson's home county, McDutfie,
went for Smith by vote of nearly
two to one.
Ocala, Fla, October 5: After fa
tally wCunding Deputy Sheriff Hudson
and eX-Sheriff Gordon, while barricad-
ed in his home in the suburbs of Oca-
Ia, William Summerlin placed the muZ-
Zle OF rife in his mouth and blew his
head off For three hours Summer
lin resisted the efforts of members of
the police department and sheriffs
deputies to arrest him, firing on every
person in sight. The Ocala rifles were
called out and surrounded the house
Shortly after nightfall. the Gordon
closed in, the door was broken down
and Summerlin's body was found on
the floor. with half his head blown off.
Early i'm the afternoon Deputy Sher-
iff Hudson went to Summerlin's home
to serve a warrant for a minor offense.
Summerlin warned the officer not to
come into his yard, and when Hudson
started in he was shot down. En-
Sheriff Gordon. hearing the shot, went
to the assistance of Hudson. While
bending over the PROSTATE form of the
deputy, Gordon was shot down, prob
ably fatally wounded. Summerlm
then secured the rifle carried by Dep
uty Hudson. Barricading himself
again. he offered stubborn resistance
to arrest. A large crowd quickly gath
cred keeping a safe distance. A guard
was thrown around the house and sew
eral vOlleys were poured into it, but
Summerlin had already killed himself.
The two wounded officers were hurried
to a local hospital where an CNamina-
tion was made. and their condition
pronounced as critical.
Portugal has been declared a re-
public is the news that came over the
cables Wednesday, The first intima-
ton Of the trouble was published dur
ing Tuesday afternoon. Some of the
London papers got news by wireless to
the effect that there had been an up
rising of republicans and that the
monarchy had been overthrown. All
other kinds of communication had
been interrupted. and it was not until
Wednesday that anything like salts
factory comprehension of tn" facts