Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-09
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In the election Ol w. ~. NuUS, q AOA
mer justice of the peace Of Colorado
Springs to the supreme court to I'LL
the unexpired term of the late Chief
Justice Robert w. Steele, which runs
until January 10, 1911. Judge Steele
died shortly before election. Governor
Shafroth did not exercise his right Of
appointment before the general elec-
ton and none of the political parties
took the trouble to name candidate
for the unexpired term. The votes cast
for Ruby were discovered yesterday by
the state canvassing board, the mem
bership of which includes the governor
and the attorney general. The board
declared it's belief that Ruby was en-
titled to sit on the supreme bench un-
til January 10. next.
Interest in congress Wednesday,,
centered in the reporting to both houses
of the findings of the special joint COM
mittee, which for eleven months has
busted itself with the charges made
against Richard A. Ballinger, secretary
of the interior. Three reports were filed
"a majority report, clearing the cab
met officer of all the charges; minor
ity condemnatory report Of him, and
a report by Representative Madison,
Republican, of Kansas, also condemna-
tory. The senate ordered thirty thou
sand copies Of the reports printed, and
no discussion in either house attended
their introduction. The result of the
committees work probably will prove
to be negligible, for the report leaves
the question just where it was when
the inquiry started, and there is said
to be trouble ahead if vote is called
for to determine which of the reports
shall be adopted.
-Poughkeepsie, N. Y. December Z:
That the Sunday schools are largely
responsible for the spread of conta-
gious diseases is the belief expressed
by DR.. F. ]. Mann, medical inspector
of the public schools of Poughkeepsie,
tonight. He referred to an epidemic
of whooping cough, and. said he had
traced it to the Sunday school Of a
church. Dr. Mann added that there
were as many deaths from whooping
cough as from measles or scarlet fe-
yer, and declared that some measure
should be taken to protect the pupils.
1T is not the child in school that dies
of whooping cough" said DR.. Mann, 1t
is the baby at home that dies. The chill
dren that are barred from the public
school because of contagious disease
are permitted to go to Sunday school.
In most of the Sunday schools, the
ventilation is much poorer than in pub
lie schools and the diseases are thus
quickly spread"
1t was longing to hold in his arms
his baby, which he had never seen,
that brought Walter A. Hall, default
ing bank teller, back to New York and
prison. He surrendered himself We'd
nesday, confessed a theft of $44,6O0
from the Herald Square branch of the
Greenwich bank, and was remanded
for sentence. Hall, who is "a years
old, fed from New York last July and
wandered about Canada, he said, bet
ting on horse races. When he heard
that the baby had arrived, his long
ing to see the child made his exile
misery. He sent $500 to his wife,
which she turned over to the bank.
Later, he said, he sent $1,000 to her,
but she told the police today that she
never received the money. When he
could resist no longer the impulse to
return to his baby, he came back to
New York. Hall surrendered $15,90O,
which he said was all he had left of the
money he had taken.
Charlotte, n. c.. December I: The
supreme court dealt a knockout blow
today to the regulation of North Caro-
lima railroads, which requires holders
of mileage books to exchange mileage
at stations for tickets. when 1t
handed down an opinion sustaining the
lower court in the case of Harvey V. the
Atlantic Coast Line. Harvey, a travel
ing salesman, was unable to exchange
his mileage at Wilson, n. c., because
of a waiting crowd of purchasers ahead
of him, and when he boarded the train
the conductor refused to pull his mile
age, putting him off, at the next sta
tion. He sued for $4,000 and a super
ior court jury gave him the full
amount. In the opinion, Chief Justice
Clark declares that the mileage book
regulation is a breach of faith with
the state, in that it violated the agree
ment made between the railroads and
the legislature and was therefore null
and void.
-Leipsic, December Z: The suit in
stituted by representatives of the
Turkish government against the
Reischbank, to compel that institution
to surrender $4,50O,000 which it has on
deposit to the credit of the deposed
Sultan Abdul Hamid came before the
imperial supreme court today. When
Abdul Hamid entrusted his personal
fortune to the Reischbank he eXacted
a solemn agreement that the funds
should not be withdrawn except on
presentation of an order on his hand
and seal After he was driven from the
throne the new government attempted
to recover these funds and laid before
the bankers what purported TO be a
letter from the deposed sultan author
izing their withdrawal The order,
however, did not bear the secret seal
agreed upon and the bank, which took
the further ground that their custom
er being practically a prisoner, was
unable to act of his own free WILL re-
fused to surrender the money. Suit
was then brought against the bank in
the name of the former sultan in the
provincial court at Berlin. This court
dismissed the complaint, holding 1t
was brought under compulsion and
otherwise sustained the contentious of
the Reischbank. After the hearing of
testimony the imperial supreme court
refused to entertain the plea that Abb
dull Hamid signed the order of with
drawal under duress and decided that
the Reischbank must pay the money as
demanded.
Mr.. ]. ]. Hill, the noted railway
magnate, recently gave out an inter-
view in which he stated that the Amer
ican nation as a whole was criminally
eXtravagant and that it would be only
a short time before hundreds of men
would be out of employment and that
thousands of people would be suffering
from want. Mr.. Hill attempts to in
timidate the public by the magnitude of
his figures. He says in four years
from 1892 to 1S96-or seventeen years