Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-18
Scraps aud faets.

department of agriculture. The reg
ulations were completed this after
noon and approved as required by the
pure food law. The regulation says
all mixed spirits distilled from grain,
prepared in the customary way. are
entitled to the name Of whisky. Blend
ed whisky must be labelled as such.
= Morgantown. West Virginia, Feb
ruary 15: Mrs. Susannah Guseman
Cobun, ''real daughter" and MEM
ber of the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution, Is 101 years old today,
and in good health. Mrs. Cobun is
the daughter of Abraham Guseman,
who enlisted from Harper's Ferry at
the age of II years and served for
seven years in the revolutionary war.
He was accidentally killed in 1921
while constructing a grist mill.
Washington, February 16: Sen
ator Tillman of South Carolina, was
taken suddenly i'll on the steps of the
Capitol today and had to be carried
into his room by two Capitol employees.
Later he was removed to his home
where he is now under the care Of
physician. The attack today is said
to have been due to recurrence Of
the senator's old troubles, hardening
of the arteries. DR.. Pickford said that
he did not regard this attack as Sc
rious. Late in the day at Senator
ns
tor was feeling much better.
= Madrid, February 16: DR.. Gaus
Fabric has now definitely completed
the plans for his adventurous attempt
to cross the Atlantic in an airship,
and the date of departure Is fixed for
the middle Of May. The luncheon
point has not yet been chosen, but 1t
will be either on the coast Of Portugal
or the island of Teneriffe. The bal
loon is elliptical in shape, 162 feet
long and forty-nine feet broad and
contains 5000 cubic meters of hydro
gen. The Nacelle takes the form Of
a gondola, shaped like submarine
boat, twenty-eight feet long and
seven feet broad, fitted with four
horsepower motor. This engine will
only be used to keep the balloon in
the course of the African trade
winds, the doctors idea being to
make the voyage entirely without
mechanical propulsion by keeping
within the air currents which took
Christopher Columbus on his voyage
of discovery. To obviate all danger
that might arise from the expansion
of the gas under the influence Of
changes of temperature, the balloon
has two envelopes between which an
air current constantly circulates.
Water is to be used as ballast. Be-
fore embarking on the great adven-
ture DR.. Cans Fabric will make
trial trip over some European sea.
The postal savings bank bill now
pending in congress, is causing a great
deal Of discussion throughout the
country. The bill provides that all
issue money orders, and such others as
the postmaster general may designate,
shall be postal savings repositories.
Accounts may be opened in any postal
years or over and by married women
in their own names and free from any
control or interference by their hus-
bands. No person will be permitted
to have more than one account An
account cannot be opened for less
than 81 and no more than 500 can be
deposited in any one calendar month.
All deposits must be in multipleS of
81, but in order that smaller amounts
may be accumulated for deposit, saw
ings cards will be issued and 10 cent
postal savings stamps sold. When
these cards and attached stamps show
an investment of 81 or multiples
thereof, they will be received as depos-
its. Deposits in postal savings banks
will draw per cent interest credited
to the books of the depositors once In
each year. No person will be allowed
to have a balance in a postal bank in
excess of $500, exclusive of accumu-
lated interest.
- Washington, February Is: The
presidential bill providing for the Fed
eral incorporation of industrial con-
Germs, already is receiving earnest at
tention at the hands of members of
the senate committee on the judiciary.
Contrary to the usual custom in deal
ing with important measures before
the committee, Senator Clark, of
Wyoming, its chairman, has decided
not to refer the bill to a sub-commit-
tee, but to leave it open to the con-
sideration of all the members. The
question is regarded as one of such
magnitude that it is believed the plan
adopted will insure better results than
the ordinary course, in that 1t will
cause all the members of the commit
tee to appreciate the importance of
giving the measure their especial at
gard the incorporation bill as one of
the most important and far-reaching
ever introduced in congress. The gen.
eral impression is that there will be no
effort to get final action upon it dur
ing the present session, but this does
not mean that it is to be let alone en-
tirely, in either the senate or in the
senate committee. Already some SEN
ators have announced their purpose
of discussing it in the senate before
the close of the session, and with the
subject once presented, it is not i'm
probable that a floodgate of oratory
will be opened.
- Washington, February 16: Fu-
ture selling as now carried on at the
New York Cotton Exchange, would not
be eliminated by the interdiction of
interstate telegraph and telephone
messages relating to contracts for fu-
ture delivery. declared George w.
Neville of the New York Cotton Ex-
change at today's hearing on the anti
option bill before the house commit