Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-09
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As the result of facts developed by
detectives employed to investigate the
matter, il is now believed that Mayor
Bousman of Ridgeway. Va, who was
blown up with dynamite on Sunday,
July "a. did the deed himself The
theory is that he was seeking to col
lect an accident insurance policy for
$4,000. 1t will be remembered that the
mayor was in a hammock when. the
explosion occurred. There was no hoe
in the ground under the hammock as
would have been the case if the dyna-
mite had been on the ground. 1t was
known that the mayor had been eXper-
imenting with dynamite. and paper.
bag that was wrapped around some
dynamite found nearby next day, was
identified as one that the mayor had
gotten from store. Mayor Bousman
was badly involved financially. In ad-
dition to his $4,000 accident policy, he
had two life policies, one for $1,000 and
one for $4,000.
Angry because itinerant vaudeville
show given in the BrOwnlee school
house at Wylandville. Pa, last Satur-
day night. a band of young farmers
tarred and feathered six of the actors,
ducked them in creek and later drove
them from the village. The vaudeville
troupe was billed for two nights, the
affair being advertised as clean
performance with four big acts" The
school house was jammed. An attempt
by one of the actors to produce laugh
by an obscene joke drew protest from
one of the young farmers. The protest
went unheeded. A majority of the far
mers led their sweethearts from the
building. Later every young man in
the neighborhod reappeared with buck
cts of tar and some feathers. They
coated the six offending actors, not
sparing the two women of the troupe.
Following the tarring all six were
dumped into a creek and then told to
hasten out of the village. They walked
eight miles to Washington after mid
night, but were told there to keep mov-
ing.
- London, August 6: One of the
most sensational developments in the
Crippen case came to light when
it became known that prominent So
ciety women are in the power of the
little American physician who will be
brough back from Quebec to answer
for the murder of Belle Elmore.
Shrinking from publicity that threat
ems them, these women are backing
the defense and have raised the $780,
900 fund, which Solicitor Arthur
Newton admitted could be used to-
save Crippen from punishment
Through practices held illegal by Eng
lands strict laws, Crippen got them
I'm his power and they are now in
terror, lest he shall reveal their names.
The betrayal of Crippen's real char
acter and work in London came
through the finding of a surgical in
strument buried in the cellar of the
Hilldrop Crescent house. In the last
fifteen years scores of women, many
of them of the best social standing,
have been Crippen's patients. His
practice was one of the largest of its
kind in London, according to the la
test information in the hands of the
police, though suspicion never fell on
him. The deafness cure and false
teeth business are now believed to
have been merely cloaks.
. OF
battleship cruiser Lion was launched
this afternoon at DevonpOrt She is
the greatest battleship ahoat, exceed
ing all existing Dreadnoughts in size,
speed and armament. The Lion is Of
ficially described as an armOred cruis-
er. She is superior to every battleship|
in the world, however, and is the naval
marvel of the year. The Lion is the
first naval vessel to be armed with
eight of the new 1875 inch guns, which
are arranged in four barbettes on the
centre line of the ship. The two mid
die barbettes are raised so as to per-
nit their guns To be fired over the 9TH
er barbettes. This system will allow
the whole of the main armament to be
trained on either broadside. The guns
will fire projectiles of 1850 pounds a
distance of 5000 yards. These pro-
jectiles will penetrate % inch armor.
The Lion has a displacement of 26.00G
tons. The length is 700 feet and the
breadth SS feet. The horse power of
the Lion will be 10000 and the speed
will he 80 knots. She will he fitted
with the Parsons turbines, will have
forty-two water tube boilers situated
amidships and will be protected with
nine inch armor plating. The Lion
is the fifteenth British Dreadnought to
be launched. She was constructed in
eight months and cost G2,175.OOO, or
$10,ST5,000.
- 1t will be October before people of
the United States learn their true
numbers as revealed by the official
count of the thirteenth census. 1t is
generally believed that the number will
be about 90,00O,000, and census officials
are known to share in this general be-
lief, although they know nothing about
this. This belief is based on the fact
that an increase slightly i'm excess of
the 100000 increase during the pre-
Vious decade would bring the popula-
ton in 1910 To the 90,000.0O0 mark.
About 300 Of the more than $4,000 clerks
i'm the census bureau are compiling
population figures, while the others are
working on other statistics. Contrary
To the general opinion, all the counting
of the people is done 10y clerks, the
tabulating machines being used only in
classification as to race, sex and other
conditions. Enumeration figures will
continue to be given out day by day
for the next two months or more. while
the sociological and Industrial figures
will come later. All enumerated fig
ures are counted from three to four
times and an investigation is ordered if
there is any suggestion of error. In
two cases evidence of fraud has been
discovered and in one, that of Great
Falls, Mont, a prosecution has been
undertaken for fraudulent enumera-
ton. The intention of Director Durand
is to tabulate first the population of