Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-31
Scraps and facts.

stuart paid $l,49O to get the trunks
that amount of duty having been le-
We'd on goods not contained in his dec
laratiOn of dutiable objects which
were asserted by the appraisers al
5000. The goods consisted Of gowns,
bolts of dress goods and a miscellan-
eOuS collection of goods of foreign
manufacture Mrs. Stuart had been
abroad for two years with her daugh-
ter. maid and governeSs. MT
Stuart went to Paris in March to
bring them back. That he failed to
declare dutiable goods was due to the
fact that he was not aware of re-
cent ruling of the treasury depart
ment. Before he left Paris, Mr.
Stuart obtained from the American
consulate there a copy of a ruling is
sued by the treasury department gov
erning the admission of personal pos
sessions of the travellers 1t stated
that persons who had been abroad for
two wears might declare themselves
non-residents and would not be oblig-
ed to pay duty on their belongings.
He was in ignorance of the fact that
the ruling had been superseded by
one made last March by Secretary
MacVeagh which abolished the two
year limit.
New York, May 2S: Imprisonment
for not less than twenty years, and
perhaps for life, was the penalty i'm
posed on Morris Kramer a youth of
l9 years who had been convicted OF
burglary. by Judge Malone, in gener-
al sessions court yesterday The
Judge took occasion to say he could
not understand the action OF the jury
which recommended Kramer to mer-
CIV and he also explained why he be-
lieved severe punishment should be
meted out to burglars who enter
houses at night ready to commit MUIR
der If discovered. Kramer was arrest
ed with Samuel RoSen, 81 years old,
for having attempted TO rob apart
ments in No. "a Attorney street on the
night of April 90. Rosen, who had
previously been in the Elmlra refor-
matory, admitted his guilt and was
the principal witness against Kramer,
who insisted on going to trial. On
Wednesday Judge Malone sent Rosen
to prison for thirty years ana ad1uas-
ed him an habitual criminal. When
Kramer was taken before him yester-
day for sentence Judge Malone said:
The reason which actuates jury to
recommend mercy for a person COLI
victed of burglary in the first degree
I can neither fathom nor understand.
7 do not believe that such recommen-
dation is made from Difference to the
rights of others. but rather from a no.
ton of sympathy for those in serious
trouble. But in the midst OF sympa-
thy there ought to be some considera-
ton for the righteous Indignation oil
an outraged public society.
They are about the prove the
charge recently published in the Chl-
cago Tribune to the effect that United
States Senator VIM. Lorimer of ILL
~ hNr bribery
charge was made originally by Chas.
A. White, a member of the Illinois
legislature and published in the Tri-
hune, and il made a big sensation,
Rising to a question Of personal priv
ilege in the senate on Saturday, Lor-
inner denounced the charge as lies.
He said that the whole thing had been
hatched up by Medill Mccormick, pro-
prietor Of the Chicago Tribune for the
purpose of running the prospects OF
bank that he, LOrimer, was proposing
to open. He said that the Chicago pa
per had lied and it knew 1t had lied.
Within a few hours after Lorimer's
speech, another big bomb was burst in
Springfield, Ill. State Senator Holts-
law confessed that Senator John Brod-
erick, a leading Chicago Democrat mad
given him $4,000 cash to vote Tor Lor-
inner for United States senator and
that he had afterward given him $IOO
as an amount that was coming 10
him." and promised him $500 as ms
share of a furniture deal. that was
in progress A warrant was at once
issued for Braderick. Holtslaw's is
the fourth confession of guilt in con-
nection with the bribery charge. He
claimed that he had confessed in order
to ease his conscience. The first con-
fession was made by Representative
Charles A White, who declared that
he had received 81 900 from Lee O'Neal
Brown to vote for Lorimer, and S9OO
additional from a Legislative jackpot
raised for bribery purposes. Whites
confession was later substantiated in
the Cook county grand jury room by
n. ]. Beckmeyer The third confess
sion was made by Michael S. Link on
an offer of immunity, and SO far. there
have been quite number OF indlct-
ments.
- Glenn H. Curtis flew from Albany
to New York city last Sunday morn
ing and won a prize of $4,000 offered
by the New York World. According to
the terms of the competition, the hlSht
was down the Hudson river following
the windings of the stream and the
trip was to be made in two laps with
a single stop. There was no time linn
it except that there must be no unnec-
essary delay at the single stop allow
ed The start was made at 7.03 o'clock
i'm the morning under weather condi-
tions that were perfect. and the entire
distance of 1872 miles was covered in
two hours and 80 minutes. The fastest
railroad trip over the same route was
made in hours and 40 minutes IN
1900. There was a special train over
the New York Central railroad con-
sisting of an engine and five cars
loaded with sightseers including Mrs.
Curtis. The train started with the
aeroplane or a little after 1t. and made
the trip a little behind. it having to
slow up for the towns through which
il passed. Curtis's first stop was made
at POughkeepsie, which he made in
SO minutes. II is "a miles from AL
banY. The stop at POughkeepSie was
only for a few minutes. The principal
purpose was TO let the engine cool and
take on more gasoline. Because of
previous postpOnementS of the flight.
there was no gasoline on hand. Some
enthusiastic automobiists, however,
who had been following the daring
aviator along the roads below, offered
to supply gasoline from their stores
and the offer was promptly accepted.
With his gasoline repleniShed, Curtis
easily made another rise and sailed on
down the river following It's winnings
until he got to upper Manhattan. His
original purpose was to go on To Gov
ernors Island. But as the requirement
was merely that he should land on the
island and as there appeared broad
eXpanse of green sward along the
northern shore. he decided to come
down on it. The landing was made
without difficulty. He telcphoned the
New York World of his arrival and
then getting under way sailed on down
the river to Governors Island, thirteen
miles away. Hundreds of thousands
of people assembled along the water
front gave him a noisy greeting His
wife arrived i'm tn" crowd and kissed
him, and this added 10 the tremendous
tumult Half an hour later Curtis
having turned his aeroplane over to
the soldiers. went to the office of the
World and got his check for $4,000.
- Washington. May %: The Bal
linger- PinChot investigation ended
today i'm d blaze of verbal fireworks
The OratoriCal efforts closed the open
hearings and the attorneys who have
h.a,, in the 90 will nI re-