Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-18
Scraps aud faets.

lice station last Friday morning, SER
geant Michael Lane espied an object
on the sidewalk which looked ike
rubber football. He stepped back a
few steps, got a running start ana
gave the supposed ball a kick. 1t was
a bomb. The sergeant fell to the street
unconscious and every window In the
station house was shattered. The ser
geant was removed to the hospital In
an unconscious condition. Detectives
who examined the fragments OF the
bomb said II contained enough pow
der to blow up a city block.
Following an appeal to the Fed
eral authorities in Washington for aid
in fighting an epidemic of typhoid
fever in Little Rock, Gov. Donaghey
was on Saturday advised that DR.. X:
H. Frost, an expert in the natlonai
hygienic laboratory, is now on his way
to this city. DR.. Hoffman, chairman
of the board of health, reports that
the area Of infection lies within three
blocks of the city park, where the
Confederate reunion camp was locat-
ed. He SAYS the disease, which be-
came epidemic several weeks ago, is
due to a lack of sanitary precautions.
Reports to the city physician snow
there are now 121 cases OF typholu
fever.
John Dymond, a New Orleans cane
planter told the house investigating
committee last Saturday that Loulsl-
ana cane growers were absolutely at
the mercy of the American Sugar Re
fining company which bought raw su-
gar arbitrarily paying its own price.
Dymond said there was no compeu-
tive buying in New York and practi-
cally all buyers who have not been
brought into combination by the
trust" maintained an armed truce.
Dymond said that the growers could
not afford to antagonize the trust
why" asked Representative Jacoway
you have heard of the Bucks stove
case?" YES" "Then we are AFRAID
we might be boycotted." Dymond re-
called one case where the trust dis
ciplined a large grower by refusing to
buy his produce.
- New York. July Is: Three-quar-
ters of a million dollars has been re-
covered from the concealed assets OF
Gaynor and Greene, who defraudeo
the government Of $2,000,0O0 in Sa-
vannah harbor dredging contracts In
1897 according to a dispatch from
Washington. This was developed by
inquiries at the department OF justice
yesterday. E. I. johnson, an expert
accountant and United States District
Attorney Marion Erwin of Savannah,
Georgia, are responsible for the re-
covery. Most of the funds recovered
were in bonds and stocks. More than
100000 was in cash. These assets
were found in New York, Philadel-
phia, Chicago and Denver. Some bonds
were located in Paris, but they could
not be recovered. Johnson and Erwin
have been searching for these assets
for twelve years.
-Asheville, N. c., July 16: A
fatal epidemic prevails In Mitchell
county, which has heretofore been un-
known to medical science and Is baf-
fling skilled physicians who have
made every effort to check the malady
which manifests by small bloodshot
stains on the tips of the fingers, pass
ing through the arm into the body and
resulting in death within few days
after the first sign appears. The plague
has claimed a number OF victims In
Mitchell county, one of whom was DIR.
F. P. Slagle. DR.. Charles Buchanan
a prominent physician, became affected
a few days ago and was sent to a
johnson City, Tenn, hospital where
his condition Is said to be critical.
There are no paroXyms accompanying
the attack the disease appears to move
rapidly from the finger tips, along the
arm into the body and reaches the
heart within a day or two, resulting
invariably in immediate and apparent
" painless death. No permanent re-
lief has thus far been discovered, and
II is reported that the rapidity with
which the malady is spreading has be-
come alarming.
- Chicago, June Is: The flight OF
the vital spark" has been witnessed,
according to a statement today by DR..
Patrick S. O'Donnell, an X-ray expert
who has been following up expert
ments made by DIR. w j. Kilner. Of
London, England. Some time ago.
using a chemicalized film sealed be-
tween two thin strips Of glass, DR.. o.
Donnell gave a demonstration to twen-
ty physicians of the aura, or electrical
radiation" of living bodies, four young
women being used as subjects. The
light surrounding the entire form OF
the subject. Last night" said DR..
O'Donnell, 'in the presence Of several
physicians at Mercy hospital, Il tried
the experiment on dying man. He
was rapidly sinking. Suddenly the at
tending physician announced that the
man was dead. The aura began to
spread from the body, and presently
disappeared. Further observation OF
the corpse revealed no sign OF the au-
ra I'VE do not claim that the light is
the soul, or spirit. In fact, no one
seems to know what it is. In my
opinion, however, it is some sort Of ra-
dio-activity made visible by the use of
the chemical screen. My experiments,
however, seem to prove that II Is the
animating power, or current Of life OF
human beings"
Washington, July 15: That South
Carolina will send blind senator TO
Washington to serve with Mr.. Gore,
of Oklahoma, II State superintendent
Swearingen cares for the seat of Sem
ator Tillman, is the prediction credit
ed TO Secretary of State McCown by
a Washington paper today. Mr.. Nc
Gown Is quoted as follows: IF Sena-
tor Benjamin Ryan Tillman does not
want another term in the senate when
his present one expires in 1913, 1t is
practically certain that his nephew.
j. F.. Swearingen, can have the toga.
Mr.. Swearingen is now state Superin-
Iendent of education for South Caro-
lima and he has accomplished wonders
in his way for education. Mr.. Swear
ingen is blind, but his affliction has not
impaired his abilities and from early
manhood he has been figure in pub
lie affairs. II he allows his name to
will be elected, whether by direct vote
of the people or by legislative selec-
ton. Mr.. Swearingen is a forceful
and powerful man. His personality is
pleasing and if he follows his uncle in
office he will be heard from on big
things" Mr.. McCown had left Wash
ington before the above statement was
printed. He had been here in connec-
tion with the Associate Reformed
church claims in Mexico.
With the ushering in Of the cur
rent week, Mississippi's memorable
political campaign, the bitterest and
most spirited in the history of the
state, reaches the beginning OF the
end The Democratic state executive
committee assembled in the senate
chamber at Jackson at noon yester-
day to prepare the form of the
official ballot and to declare as
nominees of the party all candidates
for state offices who have no opposi-
ton. No changes have been made in
the estimates issued from headquar-
ters of the three senatorial candidates.