Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-11-24

hands or the ponce laSt IuSsuay
night, according to a London cable.
They had threatened to force their
way into the house of commons ana
make a protest on the floor OF the
house against the prime minister's re-
fusal to pledge the government to a
bill giving equal suffrage to ooth
sexes, but they failed even to reacn
the entrance to parliament. Thwarted
hy the police. who made 223 arrests
the suffragettes resorted to cam
paign of window smashing. Driven
from parliament square by the police,
| 800 of whom were on duty, the wo-
men accompanied by sympathizers
and gangs of rowdies, proceeded
through White Hall armed with bags
concealed under their coats, and
broke many windows in public offices,
Liberal headquarters and the National
Liberal club. They even EXTENDED
their operations to the Strand, where
windows of the postofhce, bank and
even private concerns sunered from
the onslaught The militant tactics
of the suffragettes followed a state
ment by Premier Asquith that the
government was unable to introduce
a bill to enfranchise women, as the
cabinet was divided on the question,
but would allow an amendment TO De
introduced to the proposed manhood
suffrage bill, leaving 1t to the house
of commons to decide whether women
should be given a vote.
The Notifications which are being
constructed on the Panama canal
will be- named in honor of the heroes
of the civil war, with the exception
of one at the Atlantic terminus, which
will be called Fort De Lesseps, in
honor of the Frenchman who engi-
neered the original canal project
which failed. The seacoast fort at
the Pacific terminus Of the canal will
be known as Fort Grant, and the bat
teries at this fortiflcation will bear
names of division commanders OF the
northern army. They will be as fol-
lows: John Newton, Wesley Merritt,
Gouveneur K. Warren, Don Carlot
Buell., Ambrose E. Burnside, John G.
Burke and Charles F. Smith. The
seacoast forts at the Atlantic termi-
nus will be known as Fort sherman
in honor of General William T. Sher-
man; Fort Randolph, in honor OF
General Wallace F. Randolph, and
Fort De Lesseps. The batteries at
Fort Sherman will be named in honor
of the following division command
ers who served under General Sher-
man: oliver o. Howard, David 5.
Stanley, Joseph A. Mower and Jud-
son Fitzpatrick. The batteries at the
other two forts will be known as
Jobn G. TibdeIl, Alexander S. Webb,
Stephen S. Wood and Charles II. Nor
gan. They are named for artillery
officers who distinguished them
selves during the civil war.
Joseph Pearson Caldwell, one Of
North Cardinals most prominent edi-
tors, and at one time chairman of the
national convention, died last We'd
nesday morning at Morganton, n. c.,
after an illness of nearly two years.
Mr.. Caldwell suffered stroke or
paralysis, while editor Of the Char
lotte Daily Observer, on March 8,
1909. After several weeks illness he
second stroke Of paralysis with motor
aphasia, from which he never fully
recovered. He was taken to Morgan
ton, where he remained until the time
of his death. From early boyhood,
Mr.. Caldwelrs life was devoted to
newspaper career. He was born June
l6, 1853, at Statesville, n. c., and at
the age of II entered the newspaper
business as an apprentice in the office
of the Iredell County Eenterprise. In
1872 he became local editor Of the
Charlotte Observer. where he remain
ed until 1876, when he entered upon
the same duties on the Raleigh On.
C.) News. After a year he returned
to the Observer as an editorial writer.
In 1880 he purchased the Statesville
IN. c. Landmark, and while editor
of that paper was elected mayor OF
Statesville, 1SS6-90. In 1880 he also
became a director of the State Hos
pital for the Insane, and served as
chairman of the board from 1884 to
1909. In 1892 Mr.. Caldwell was chair
of CarO1inq state dele
CATION to the Democratic national
convention, and in the same year be-
came editor of the Charlotte Even
ing Chronicle, now the Charlotte
Daily Observer.
- Exonerated of the charge of muir
der committed back in the seventies,
MesSrs George Simmons and John
Black, prominent business men of
Gaffney S. c.. were allowed to go
free yesterday at Rutherfordton,
where they were given hearing be-
fore Squire John Beam. For some
time the case has created no little
interest throughout this section, be-
cause Of the prominence of the Gaff-
ney men and the fact that the alleged
murder was committed thirty or more
years ago. MeSSrS. Ryburn & Hoey
of Shelby represented the defendants,
and MeSSrS. Quinn, Hamrick q Nc
Rorie prosecuted. ]. E. Fisher seems
to have been the active prosecuting
witness, who claims that he was hired
by the family of the dead boy, Calvin
Weaver, to work up the evidence.
Fisher tried to prove that in the early
seventies Calvin Weaver went from
Rutherford county to South Carolina
TO work for one Jonas Harris now
deceased. Weaver started back home,
but when he reached Broad river the
water was up and he stopped at Mrs
Hicks to spend the night at Island
ford There was social gathering
there that night. and Weaver was
shown to his room rather early. The
prosecuting witness tried to show that
Jonas Harris J. q. Simmons. John
Black and others were in pursuit of
the boy to take him back to his en-
ployer, and when they found him,
they took him to the ford in the river
and tried to make him wade across
when he disappeared and has never
been heard of since. The case was eX-
tremely interesting, and many people
attended the hearing. but there was
not sufficient evidence to attach any
guilt on simmons and BLACK, so they
were released They voluntarily went
to the trial, and have been anxious to
clear their skirts of tAe charge.
Washington, November 21: In no
previous year has so much cotton
been ginned to November IA as during
the present season, the census bu-
reau's report today showing a total
of 11,269,9S6 bales, which is almost
100000 bales more than was ginned
to that date in the record year of
1904. The feature Of today's report.
however, was the figures of Georgia,
which show 2,1O3,979 bales had been
ginned to November IA. This guam
tity of cotton is more than ever grown
in Georgia before, and by the time
the final ginning reports are received
it will have far surpassed the pre-
vious crops Of any year. Every cotton
state, except Mississippi and Okla
homa, showed a greater amount OF
cotton ginned than during the past
two years. While the total was great
er than any other year, the amount
ginned between November l and IA
this year was not so large as that
ginned last year during that time.
Only 1,299,0Sl bales were ginned this
year, compared with 1,359,279 bales