Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-07
Straps and facts.

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For a considerable time Postmaster
General Hitchcock has been conduct
ing a personal investigation into the
operations of the railway mail service.
His inquiry developed facts which in
dicate that the results are likely to be
drastic. The investigation, he indi-
Gated, had disclosed the fact that or
ders had been issued by subordinate
officers Of the service placing upon the
employees unreasonable and in some in
stances humiliating burdens. These
orders were promulgated in the name
of the postmaster general, although he
knew nothing about them until his in
vestigation brought them to light.
Hardin, Manchuria, February o.:
Already nearly six thousand bodies OF
victims Of the plague have been burn
ed or buried in the outskirts OF Har-
bin. Forty eight hundred OF these
came from the Chinese town, and
thousand from the Russian quarter.
Yesterday sixteen stacks of collins and
seven pits filled with bodies and oiled
logs, blazed outside the town. The
mortality among the physicians and
the hospital attendants is high, consid-
ering the means taken for their protec-
tion, and doctors, nurses and ordernes
are succumbing to the disease. The
sanitary authorities hope soon TO test
serum of their own manufacture from
the Manchurian bacilli as the foreign
importations have proved ineffective.
The happenings in Europe in the sew
enteenth century when the black
DEATH" swept through the country, are
being repeated here. Fears bordering
on panic have gripped the Chinese. AT
the first they defied the medical off,
GERS, and kept their sick and dead hid
den for the purpose of carrying out an
cient funeral rites. Now 1t Is brother
against brother and father against son.
The stricken ones are forced into the
streets to starve or freeze, to fall per-
ishing from the swift and deadly at
tack the plague makes upon its VIC
Tins Passersby avoid them but some
times those engaged in sanitary work,
masked and bandaged, reach them be-
fore they die and cart them to the pest
house, or If they are dead, to the fu-
neral pyres. Not infrequently an out
cast is seen to be kneeling and making
his obeisance before the grave OF an
ancestor, in sight of pile of bodies
in which he Is soon to become one.
Abdul Hamid, former sultan OF
Turkey, has gone violently insane, has
killed two of his wives and is today
confined in irons. The murder of the
two women, who were among those
who accompanied Abdul Hamid from
Constantinople when he was eXiled to
Salonica, by the Young Turks, was
particularly brutal. He choked one OF
them to death with his own hands and
dashed the other so violently against
the wall that she died few hours Ia
ter, according to one OF the men VINO
have been guarding the deposed ruler
at the villa where he Is spending MS
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only after a fierce struggle in which he
himself was severely injured. Abdul
Hamid is confined in a dungeon be-
meath the villa Allatini, which, while
set apart for him as a residence, is IN
reality his prison. He was sent there
on April 27, 1909, when the Turkish
revolution, brought about by the Young
Turk party, was finally completed and
Sultan Mehmid V ascended the throne.
Abdul Hamid had reigned for thirty
years up to that time, had deluged his
empire in blood and had kept 100000
spies to betray their fellow citizens. He
was noted for having tricked the diplo-
mats of all Europe, and from time to
time shocked the world by his sem
suality and crimes. When Abdul was
sent to the villa here his suite which
was allowed to accompany him was
COMPOSED of three sultanas, or full
wives: four cadines, or inferior wives;
five halfas, or lady housekeepers, priv
ileged to go out Of the harem; two
princes, his daughter and nine SER
wants. This really gave him the al
lowance of twelve wives. The villa In
which the ex-sultan is housed is lone
ly spot overlooking the sea and can be
approached only by one road, which
leads to the residence of the governor
of Salonica. 1t is said that man
supposed to be the sultan is seen work
ing daily at a carpenters bench. Thls
man Is said to be guard disguised as
the royal prisoner, to conceal the fact
that the ex-sultan is not allowed to
leave his cell.
Washington, February 5: IF the
necessary appropriations were aVaila-
BILE, / would establish postal savings
banks tomorrow in five hundred addi-
tional cities and towns of the United
States" This statement was made to-
night by Postmaster General Hitchcock
in view of reports thus far received
concerning the first months operation
of the postal savings system. The re-
ports are most gratifying to Mr..
Hitchcock and to the other officers OF
the postal savings service. They are
regarded as demonstrating that the
new system already has passed the eX-
perimental stage. The certificate OF
deposit plan, which is an innovation
in the transaction of postal savings
business, is shown to be admirably
adapted to it's purpose. 1t is found to
be readily understood by depositors
and easily handled by postmasters.
The total deposits in the forty eight
existing postal banks for Il. ; month OF
January will amount to approximately
100000. This is an average OF about
$1,000. Assuming that this average
will be maintained throughout the
year, the aggregate of annual deposits
will be close to three-quarters OF
million dollars. This, too will be the
situation in the small offices, where
the banks now are in operation. 1t is
assumed by the officers Of the system
that the deposits will be correspond
ingly greater when the service is eX-
tended to first-class offices. the
average amount of deposits being re-
ceived at each office, as indicated by
the January returns, is larger than the
corresponding average for the British
system of postal savings repositories
in 1908, the most successful year in
the history of that system. A large
majority of the depositors in January
were foreign born Americans, many of
whom have been in the habit of send
ing their savings to their native coun-
tries for deposit. An important result
of the system, therefore, is to diminish
the outflow from the United States of
such funds. In view of the successful
operation of the new system during its
first month, Postmaster General Hitch
cock has recommended to congress
the appropriation of s1,000,000 to be
Immediately available for the eXten-
sion of the postal savings system TO
considerable number of postoffices, the
patrons of which are clamoring for the
new banks.
Washington, February 3: The acute
revolutionary situation along the
northern border of Mexico today NOV
ed the American government to rush
twelve additional troops of cavalry to
the frontier to preserve the neutrality
of the United States. The American
military forces will prevent not only
the movement of revolutionary bands
from this country into Mexico, but also
will prohibit defeated rebels with arms
from seeking refuge on the territory
of the United States. This action was
based upon strong representations