Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-31
Scraps and fatts.

which had been In pad cOnQlllOn LOT d
number OF years, and became critically
i'll on Friday. Mrs. Pulitzer who had
been notified in New York, arrived, In
Charleston and reached the yacht q
short time before her husband died
The remains were taken north in q
private car. Mr.. Pulitzer was a Hun
garian by birth; but came to the
United States when young man. He
began his newspaper career as a re-
porter on German paper in st
Louis. He served through the civil
war in the Federal army. After the
war he purchased the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, and made a great neWsps, spa
per of 1t. Later. about twenty eight
years ago, he became the proprietor
of the New York World, then a paper
of limited circulation, and by original
methods revolutioniZed the Journalism
of the world. He built up a tremend-
Gus fortune and made liberal dona-
tions for various educational purposes
In the recent fighting in and
around the city Of Tripoh, says
London dispatch, 500 Italians were
killed or wounded. In the course OF
the attack the Arabs broke the Ital-
ian line between Meusseri and Bu-
Meliana Springs. The artillerists drove
the Arabs back with picks and shoV-
els. lie ATdDS DIOhS lillOo6h o0oAAA'
and this time the Italians surrounded
500 of the Arabs and gave them time
to surrender. They did not avail
themselves of the opportunity, and a
Hotchkiss gun, captured from the
Turks, was used against 500, of whom
800 were killed. The Arabs every
where displayed fanatical courage.
One party's failure in defending the
green banner. the emblem of the holy
. nr1 a
Eighty-fourth regiment surrounded
the party and repeatedly attempted to
capture the banner. The efforts only
served to bring out Arab tenacity. The
banner fell fifty times, and each time
Ii was raised again by other hands,
the defenders preferring to be killed
to the last man rather than surrender.
1t was only when death wounds had
thinned the ranks and the troops were
powerless that an Italian rush brought
about the capture of the banner. The
ground was piled with dead and
wounded. The renewed activity Of the
Turks is believed to indicate that a
new leader has Joined them. This re-
news the rumors that EnVer Bey has
succeeded in reaching the army. The
weekly newspaper. Outlook, says II
has special information that Enver
Bey passed lately through Egypt by
camel relays and Joined the grand
sheikh Of the Senussi. 1t says that
the Moslems are united in the whole
Tripolitan hinterland, and that there
Is holy war declared against the
Italians. It is impossible for the
Cairo government to prevent constant
communication across the frontier be-
tween Tripol and Egypt.
- Washington, October 30: Com
plete control of all the railroads of
the country by the interstate COM
merce commission and virtual elimi-
nation of state commissions from
such control, is foreshadowed in an
opinion handed down today by the
supreme court of the United States.
The court held that hereafter all To-
comotives, cars or other equipment
used on any railroad which is high
way of interstate commerce must
comply with the Federal safety ap-
pliance act. In its opinion the court
held that compliance with Federal law
is compulsory on all railroads which
are engaged in the transportation or
persons or freight from one state TO
another. Celebrating this, however,
1t held that the cars or equipment OF
such roads, even If engaged in such
transportation within the confines OF a
state, must be considered as part and
parcel of the road and therefore, COM
pletely under the jurisdiction of the
Federal commission. Members OF the
interstate commerce commission, VINO
have been embarrassed on numerous
occasions by clashes of authority with
state commissions, are jubilant at the
ruling of the supreme court, which
was unanimous. Referring to the
courts opinion, Commissioner Frank
lin K. Lane declared lit meant, event
ually that there is to be no dual con-
troll of interstate carriers" The de-
termination of the moot question was
laid down in an opinion read by JUS
tice Van DeVanter in a case Instituted
by the government against the South
ern railway The point at issue was
whether the Federal act applied in
the case of a shipment from one point
in Alabama to another point in the
same state, the shipment being in an
improperly equipped car. The lower
courts held that there had been Vi
olation of the law, and their judgment
was sustained by the supreme court.
Charlotte Observer: The Asso-
ciate Reformed Presbyterian synod
of the south, embracing all the
churches within the bounds OF the
Psalm singing Presbyterians this side
the Mason and Dixon line, will meet
next week at Troy, Tenn, and this
immediate section will be largely rep
resented. The general synod of this
church is the highest council of the
denomination, having authority over
all the presbyteries Of which it con-
sists The synod met with the con-
gregation of Troy, Tenn, about thirty
years ago, and its present const1tu-
ency numbers only few of the min
listers and elders of the churches who
were present then. 1t is somewhat OF
a coincidence that of, perhaps, hall
dozen who attended the annual meet
ing at that time two of them will at
tend at the approaching assemblage
from this county, Rev. DR.. G. K
White, pastor of the Ebenezer church,
and Rev. DR.. r. G. Miller, pastor OF
the Sardis church. These, in COM
pany with Rev. w. NJ. Hunter, who
is now a pastor in Arkansas, were the
only members, of the synod from this
general section who attended the syn
cd about thirty years ago. Among
those who are expected to attend, to-
gether with individual elders repre-
senting their respective congregations
from this county, are as follows: Rev
DR.. White. Rev. Dr. Miller, Rev. j,
Royce Hood Of the Back Creek church.
Rev ]. NJ. Bigham Of Huntersville,
Rev. E. Grier Carson of Villa Heights,
Charlotte: Rev. r. r. Caldwell, For
est Grove. Charlotte; and Mr.. ]. H.
Ross. who for some years was in
charge of the laymen's missionary
movement of the denomination.
- The beginning of the end has been
reached in the Chinese revolution. The
throne has acceded to the demand of
the national assembly by issuing an
imperial edict granting full constitu-
tional government. The edict is very
apologize in its nature. 1t sets forth
that, being inexperienced in politics
the emperor has been deceived and
betrayed by his advisers. and that the
people have been miSgoverned and
robbed. 1t is promised that the gov
erning cabinet shall not include any
of the nobility. but that the common
ers shall have full sway. AS to what
the effect of the edict is going to be
is not yet altogether clear. The reb.
els are everywhere victorious and
have things their own way. AS tC
whether they will allow the emperor
in 10 throne