Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-29
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October l, he will attempt to fly from
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New York.
Twenty six persons were killed and
over sixty were injured at Canons-
burg, Pa, last Saturday night as the
result of the explosion of a film in a
moving picture show. The audience
consisted mainly of women and chill
dren. The room was small and there
was a large crowd on the outside wait
ing until the performance was over so
they could get in. One film had just
been reeled off and as another was
started it caught fire. Some one inside
saw the flash and raised the alarm.
The audience became panic stricken
and rushed out. People on the outside
thinking the show was over began to
rush in. The deaths were caused by
the crush, most of them being from
suffocation. Firemen came on the
scene a few minutes after the giving
of the alarm and rushing into the
building threw many of the struggling
spectators into the streets, thus saw
ing a number Of lives that would have
otherwise been lost.
About forty persons were killed
and more than sixty were injured when
an east bound Lehigh Valley train of
fourteen coaches plunged through a
trestle near Manchester n. Y, last
Friday. The train consisted Of four
teen coaches loaded mainly with Grand
Army veterans, returning from an en-
campment that had been held at Ro-
chester The train was being drawn by
two engines and was 40 minutes late.
The accident is thought to have been
caused by a spreading Of the rails as
the train went on the trestle. At any
rate two Pullmans, a dining car and
through the trestle down against an
embankment. Most Of the dead were
killed outright, but many others were
so badly mangled that they died before
they could be removed. The falling
cars carried with them several tele-
graph poles and telegraph service was
Interrupted The work of getting the
wounded people out of the cars occu-
pied several hours of hard work, 1t be-
ing necessary to cut the cars away
with axes.
James E. Cushway. the Jean Val
jean of Michigan, at present serving
a twenty-year sentence in Marquette
prison for robbery, says Jackson.
Miss, dispatch of August 25, will be
paroled by the pardon board Septem-
ber l. Cushway, who Is just 30 years
of age. is the smoothest man ever
locked behind the bars, according to
prison authorities. During his career
he has made his escape from jackson
prison five times. Each time he was
recaptured. Jackson prison authori-
ties stated they knew he could escape
from that institution at any time If
he cared to, and for that reason he
was transferred to Marquette last
December, together with Burk, Boyce
and Thompson, the confessed dyna-
mite plotters, who made plans to
blow up the Jackson prison. Cush-
way never injured an officer in his
escapes, but always managed to
make his getaway by means Of some
clever scheme. In one escape he
donned the garb of guard and
walked past an officer, who saluted
him as such. Another time he placed
himself in box and was shipped out
of the prison.
Lions are being slaughtered in
Africa like jackrabbits and Col. Roos-
evelt's record has been broken, ac-
cording to letters received at Cotton
Plant, Miss, from Paul Rainey Twen-
ty-seven lions were killed in thirty
five days by Rainey and his party in
their first hunt near Nairobi, accord
ing to letters dated June 20. Rainey
modestly refrains from taking any
credit for the lion killing. He gives
all credit to the dogs. THE only way
to hunt lions is with dogs" says the
letter just received here. Hereto
fore records show that one man has
been sacrificed for every lion killed.
Our dogs, however, take the charge
out of the king of beasts and make the
pastime more pleasant when the final
death scene is enacted" The lions,
however, have taken revenge on the
fancy priced pack of hounds that
Rainey gathered for the trip, accord
ing to the letter. other hounds
which were shipped from here were
expected in Africa by Rainey on July
IL. Rainey, Ed Shelley and others
equipped the African expedition last
winter. They purchased almost every
famous bearhOund in the south for
the hunt.
The total number of medical stu
dents in the. United States for the
year ending June 80, 1911, was 49,
7S6, a decrease Of lao below 1910,
a decrease of 1859 below 1909, a de-
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crease of 1856 below 1904, when the
highest number of students was en-
rolled. In fact, it is the lowest num-
Der since 1900 according to the Jour-
nal of the American Medical aSocia-
tion, which recently published a re-
port on medical education for the
past year. OF the total number of
students, 1914 were in attendance
at the regular colleges, $50 at the
homeopathic, 33 at the eclectic, and
49 at the physio-medical colleges. The
attendance at the regular colleges
shows a decrease of 1922 below that
of last year, of 2,140 below 1909, and
2.522 below 1908. In the homeo-
pathic colleges there was an increase
of twenty-three above the attendance
of 1910. but a decrease of nine below
the total for 1909. The eclectic col
leges show a decrease Of % below
1910, but an increase of 20 above
1909. The physio- medical colleges
had the same number as last year, 40
students. as compared with so in 1909
and 80 in 1908.
- Before the Essex county Repub-
lican club at Hamilton, last Saturday
President Taft made a speech that
may fairly be regarded as the open
ing Of the campaign of 1912. He
singled out Senator LaFollette OF
Wisconsin, Speaker Clark and Chair
man Underwood of the house ways
and means committee, as leaders of
the attempted revision. He indicated
that he regarded the proposed revi-
sion as injudicious and dangerous to
business but made it plain that if the
tariff board in December reports that
downward revision Of the cotton and
wool schedules should be made he
will recommend it. He said in part:
THE extra session of congress was
called for the purpose Of confirming
the Canadian reciprocity treaty which
it did by a support made up of votes
from both parties. l have no doubt
Massachusetts. by both parties, would
confirm its adoption. Our Democratic
friends, however, were not content to
allow the session to pass with the ac-
mplishment of the purpose for
which it was called. They assisted
most Of them-in the passage of the
reciprocity bill, because they believed
in its usefulness, and in so doing they
united with the Republican support
and did not play politics" in its pas
sage. However, having pursued a
purely statesmanlike course with ref
erence to reciprocity. they did poll
tics of the most irresponsible charac-
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