Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-25
Scraps and facts.

cent greater than in 1909, all Of which
shows that the south has very Valu-
able industry, and one that demands
scientific and careful handling Of the
pine forests that produce the resin
and the turpentine to prevent the de-
struction of the trees.
Havana, July %: Four more
skeletons were found today In the
wreck Of the Maine, making total OF
eleven recovered in the last few days
and leaving seventy-seven still unac-
counted for. The skeletons were found
on the starboard side of the main deck
near the engine room. Others are to
be seen pinned beneath wreckage but
they cannot be removed for the pres
ent. The night that the Maine was
blown up was a sultry one, as was
told in the investigation, and the men
were probably asleep on the deck as
the sleeping accommodations on the
ship were poor. The ships bell was
found today broken in two. In the
ward room were found a revolver and
a couple of safety raZors. Most of the
water has been pumped from inside
the cofferdam and the pumping will
probably be finished on Monday; arter
that the work of exploration will pro-
ceed as rapidly as the mud dries.
There are thirty feet Of mud about the
ship. but 1t will not be necessary to
remove all this before exploring the
interior.
- Mrs. Mary Trawick Proctor, aged
Ill years, a real daughter Of the
American revolution, a woman who
has lived in three centuries, when
stirring events were making the his
tory of nations, has just been located
in an humble cabin in Barlow county,
Georgia, says an Atlanta dispatch.
Her sole companions are her daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Proctor, aged 80, and
two great-great-grand children, de-
scendants Of another daughter, all who
are left of six generations of her fam
ily Mrs Proctor was born in Wake
county, North Carolina. She is the
daughter of Wiley Trawick, who left
North Carolina about 1900 and later
moved to Alabama, where Mary was
married to Hiram Proctor when she
was l9 years of age. She was Proc
tors third wife. Her husband was a
veteran Of two wars, the revolution
and the war of 1912. On a bed of
straw, constituting a mattress so thin
that the rough plank Stats can be seen
this daughter of the revolution lies,
her form emaciated, skin wrinkled, al
most a skeleton. Her aged daughter.
give her mother every POSSIBLE COM
fort, administers to her wants and tills
the soil in a small cotton and garden
patch nearby. The meager profits
derived from this labor she adds to
the $12 a month pension Mrs Proctor
receives for the services her husband
rendered in the war Of 1912. She was
born but a few years after George
Washington was elected president.
George Washington was the only
president who served before Mrs.
Proctor became a native Of North
Carolina. She has lived under the ad-
ministration of twenty-five presidents,
including John Adams and William
H. Taft.
- Richmond, Va, has been very
much excited for some days over
murder sensation that has been boil
ing there since Tuesday night. Henry
Clay Beatty. Jr., took his wife to
whom he had been married year, out
automobiling and brought back her
effect that at a point about five miles
from the city. a negro suddenly shout
ed from the road. You had better
run over me-" Beatty replied, You
have the entire road" The negro's
reply was the discharge of a shot gun
and Mrs. Beatty fell against Beatty.
Beatty jumped out and grappled with
the man. took the gun away from
him, and took his dead wife into the
city. That was the story as he told 1t.
Next day, however. investigation
showed a pool of blood in the road,
and marks suggesting the lifting of
the body into the automobile. The drip
pan Of the automobile, which would
have caught the blood If the woman
had been shot in the machine had
very little in 1t. Inquiry at Beatty's
home for the clothes Of the dead wo-
man disclosed that these clothes had
been burned because the family did
not want the companionship of such
gruesome reminders of the tragedy.
Later Paul Beatty, cousin Of the hus-
band of the murdered woman told that
some days before at the request of
Henry, he had bought for Henry, a
single barrel shot gun, and he thought
this was the same gun. Then young
woman named Beulah Binford, said
she had commenced an intimacy with
Beatty when she was 13 years of age,
that a child had been born, and that
it died after about year of life. The
intimacy had been broken off; but
had been renewed later. and that she
had been driving out with Beatty
several nights during the previous
week Henry Beatty sticks to his
original story. and appears to be quite
calm. Paul has tried to commit sui
eide and has shown signs of much
agitation.
tus Spreckles, son of the late Claus
Spreckles of California, and principal
owner of the Federal Sugar Refining
company, of Yonkers, y. Y, today
gave the most sensational testimony
that has been developed during the
congressional investigation of the su-
gar trust during the hearings here.
Besides giving a most important side
light on the conference between John
Arbuckle and the late Henry o. Have
meyer. which is believed to have end
ed the great sugar war, he described,
under oath, the vicissitudes of an inde-
pendent sugar refiner. He said his
plant in Philadelphia, before it was
controlled by the trust, had been put
out of commission several times by
persons who threw sand in the ma
chinery bearings and otherwise wreck
ed the plant. He Swore that in the
Yonkers refinery, after he had turned
down trust overtures, dead rats were
placed in watts of sugar ready for ship
ment and that whole vats of liquid
sugar ldu Deen uTdlHeu Oll Ill the
night into sewers. The nuisance of
dead rats continued until private de-
tectives pointed out number of his
employees, whom he discharged, refus-
ing TO pay their wages, in the hope
that they would sue him and thus
enable him TO question them under
oath as to who had employed them.
Much to his disappointment, he was
never sued. Mr. Spreckles declared
that Henry o. Havemeyer, Theodore
Havemeyer and John E. Searles, all
then officers of the American Sugar
Refining company, and now dead, pur-
chased a half interest in all of the
California refinerieS to end the
Spreckles sugar war, for $2,225,0 900 in
cash, and six months later sold this in
terest to the American Sugar Refining
company for $5,000,000 in preferred
stock. which at that time was worth
1920 share. or $6.000,000. Interest
ing points in Mr.. Spreckless testimony
included his assertion that in four
years he had made $2,000.000 on
Hawaiian sugar plantation on a cash
investment of $4,000. Since starting
the Federal refinery, ten wears ago, Dy