Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-14
Straps and faets.


Alta Vista cotton mills, the construc-
ton of which he has been the superin-
tendent. The shot was fired by Mr..
Hutchinson as he sat in his chair in his
office at Alta Vista. No cause Is as
signed for the suicide except the theory
that ii was the result Of recent i'll
health.
Atlanta, Ca, April 12: DR.. w. D.
Hunter of the United States bureau of
entomology, pre-eminently the great
est boil weevil expert in the world,
spent Monday in Atlanta, visiting his
friend, z. Lee Worsham, Georgia state
entomologist. DR.. Hunter whose head
quarters have been Dallas, Texas, for
the past ten years, has executive
charge of the whole southern field of
crop insect investigation; but all his
individual work during the past few
years has been devoted to the study
of the boil weevil. While DR.. Hunter
says that parasites have been used sue
cessfully on limited scale, he believes
that the early planting Of cotton and
the planting of varieties which mature
early are the best two of. all means to
fight the inroads Of the pest into Geor-
gia. DR.. Hunter throws no new light
on the march of the boil weevil to-
ward this state. He verifies the fact
that they are coming at the rate OF 80
now in the middle of Alabama. So they
should reach the Georgia line in about
two years.
Mexico City, April IL: Regardless
of talk of peace, Mexico's department
of war, is rapidly placing it's fighting
machinery in the best condition possi-
bile. Francisco I. Madero may yet be
induced to agree to terms which do not
include the resignation Of President
Diaz, or it is said, his following may
be taken from him by those who are
spreading the propaganda OF peace.
The spending Of eight million pesos ap-
propriated by congress last week as
special fund has begun. Today 1t was
announced that the government has
placed in England an order for $4,000
rifles of the Martine-Hale pattern, and
another order for 100000 cartridges.
1t is asked that these orders be filled as
rapidly as possible. Today a large
consignment Of cartridges bought In
Germany arrived. One of the most
significant expenditures announced Is
that which will be incurred when the
increase in the paw Of soldiers and Of
ficers becomes effective Sunday. No
direct call for volunteers has been
made, but in almost every state not In
the control of the rebels, volunteer
companies have been organized and
their services offered to the govern
ment. In many cases the services or
these men have been accepted. Indie
ative Of the demand for officers at the
front, general orders were issued to-
day instructing all sub-lieutenantS
now employed in a clerical capacity, to
report for active duty In the field.
-Issy Les Moulineaux, France, April
1913: Pierre Prier the aviator, today
made a successful flight in mono
plane from Hendon, town six miles
from London to this place, a distance
of about 290 miles without a stop. He
started from Hendon at 1877 o'clock
and arrived at this supurb of Paris at
5.33 Today's flight of Prier is the first
ATTEMPT Of an aviator to fly from the
British capital to Paris. Prier Is new
conner in international aviation circles.
His achievement of today, however, in
flying in a monoplane from the out
skirts of London to the suburbs Of
Paris, a distance of nearly 300 miles,
places him in the ranks Of the worlds
foremost airmen. Above the English
soil the aviator found fog and squalls,
and going higher in an endeavor to OBJ
tain better weather, crossed the Eng
lish channel near Dover at the height
of over 5000 feet. Leaving the chan
mel behind him Prier encountered fine
weather until he reached Beauvais, 81
miles from the French capital and from
that city the rest of his voyage was
made through haze. Prier was wide
ly acclaimed by a dense throng as he
stepped out of his machine after light
ing on the Issy aviation field. The
monoplane used by the aviator was the
historic machine with which Alfred
Leblanc, the French aviator won the
$4,000 prize by finishing first In the
great cross country race of 4S8 miles In
a circuit east Of Paris last summer.
A heavy wind storm, attaining the
velocity of a tornado in some Sec
tions. and accompanied by rain, hail
and lightning, swept over western Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma last Wed
nesday, killing thirteen or more per-
sons, practically destroying towns, in
wrecking scores of buildings and put
ting almost every telephone and tele-
graph wire in the territory out of COM
mission. The tornado levied its great
toll of death at Big Heart. Okla,
where eight persons were killed, ten
injured and almost every building In
the town wrecked. Whiting, Kans.,
was practically wiped off the map, six
ty buildings being blown down, thirty
people hurt and one, Mrs. David Stone,
killed. At Powhattan, Kan, a woman
and child were killed. A high school
building was wrecked at Eskridge,
Kan, a number of houses damaged and
from Is to 20 persons injured. At Hia-
watha, Kan school building was
blown down and boy named FELTON,
killed and several wounded. Several
buildings were struck by lightning.
Several persons are known to have
been hurt at Netawaka, Kan. A boy
was killed at Manville, Kan. The Kan
sas end of the tornado started near
Whiting and swept in a southeast
erly direction for a distance of more
than fifty miles. 1t is thought that
many more people were killed and in
jured than have been reported at this
time. In Kansas City the storm did
little damage.
Washington, April IL: Declaring
that he means to use every possible
means to secure the passage of what is
known as the Scott anti-option bilI'
at this session of congress, Represen-
tative Burleson of Texas today began
a fight to this end. In explaining why
action should be had now, Mr.. Burle-
son SAYS: Something must be done,
and at once. to stop gambling in cotton
futures, and the duty devolves upon
this congress. A disposition has been
manifested on the part of the eX-
changes to so reform rules and methods
as 10 lllS tllNClS VI lllC SNiA
of cotton gambling, but the great con-
trolling exchange (the New York Cot
ton Exchange) has persistently refus-
ed to do anything indicating even de-
sire on the part of the element in con-
troll to meet the views of the bureau OF
corporations which has clearly pointed
out what should be done to nrotect the
producer of cotton from the great in
Jury which results from illegitimate
cotton speculation. l have introduced
a bill which l believe will remedy the
evil. Certainly it will prevent unre-
strained gambling in cotton on certain
of the exchanges where that gambling
is now obtrusively evident. MY Dill
denies the use of the telegraph and tel
ephone lines between states for the
transmission Of messages relating to
contracts for future delivery where
there is no intention on the part OF the
seller to deliver the cotton or the buy
ers to receive. The measure will not
interfere with the legitimate trading In
cotton, but will undoubtedly put a stop
IN those transactions which are prov