Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-25
Straps and 9atts.

Capltal. Unlike tne TeNOll COLuuSloN
by Madero, Zapata's rebellion depends
on no popular discomfort. His griev-
ance is not shared by anyone outside
the state of Morelos, and the public
generally Joins in condemning the lit
tie state war. On August 10 the first
battle was fought, but resulted in nc
gain to either side, and the losses were
small on both sides. 1t was rumoreo
on August IS, that Madero had induc-
ed Zapata to surrender.
w. F. Skinner and wife Of Dallas
Texas, were frozen to death neal
the summit of Pixies Peak, in Colorado
last Tuesday morning. Their bodies
almost covered with snow, were
found side by side in the afternoon by
a boy who was walking down the peak
Skinner and his wife started early
Monday afternoon to walk to the tor
of the peak, and stopped at the office
of the Pixies Peak News, about three
miles above the Half Way house, tc
register. At that time Mr.. Skinner
who is about 55 years old, doubted their
ability to reach the top Of the noun
tain. Mrs. Skinner, who was about ten
years younger than her husband, Is re-
ported to have made the remark: y
am from Texas and they're not going
to say when I get back that I could
not CLIMB Fixes Heak.
Washington, August %: Chairman
Fitzgerald of the house appropriations
committee in reviewing the work OF
the extra session today stated that the
appropriations of congress during the
extra session aggregated $301,052. He
declared that no session OF congress
has ever run for so long a period and
appropriated so little. Mr.. Fitzgerald
declared that more than 100000 had
been saved during this session by
abolishing sinecures. and cutting on
gratuities heretofore granted congress
sional employees, and that further re-
trenchment was planned for the next
session. Former Speaker Cannon ac-
cused the Democrats of being niggard-
ly, saying that in order to effect pet
ty saving the Democrats had made 1t
impossible to keep clean the quarters
occupied by representatives. He said
that If the Democratic majority had
spent proper sums in employing eX-
perts in framing their tariff bills, they
might rot have subjected themselves
to the "just criticisms Of the presi-
dent" Representative Palmer OF
Pennsylvania, Democrat, retorted that
one-fourth of the house expenses had
been eliminated by cutting off petty
graft and that 1t was the intention OF
reform in every branch Of the govern
ment. mo new officers nor new en-
ployments have been created under
Democratic auspices" said Mr.. F1tz-
gerald 1.-The house has initiated a
policy of retrenchment and reform,
which, If continued, will have far
reaching fiscal results"
The old folks about Atlanta, Ga.
SAYS a dispatch to the Greenville Daily
Piedmont, are beginning to speculate
on what serious portent may Justly be
taken from the egg laid in Hapeville
last week with the likeness Of woodrow
Wilson engrained in blush stripes into
the texture Of the eggs shell. Such
queer things have happened before in
the history Of the world. About fifty
years ago in Brittany a young sailor
was convicted and sentenced to death
though protesting his innocence-for
the murder of his sweetheart. On the
day before he was to be beheaded the
Tailor went to his own back yard to
get a fresh-laid egg for the poor
youths last breakfast. Lo and behold.
on the pure, white shell OF the egg, was
the image of the Blessed Virgin with
her hands outstretched as II in bene-
diction. The Tailor hurried with it to
the priest, and the priest to the civil au-
thorities. It was regarded as an omen,
q miracle. The hanging was stopped,
and a week afterward the real murder
er was found. In the ancient Roman
chronicles there is still more peril
nent piece of egg-lore. 1t is recorded
that when julius Caesar was yet a
consul, nursing imperial dreams stif1ed
in his breast hen at Rome laid an
egg on which appeared his likeness
and this was taken as a sign from the
L. ~
thing Of such nature can be deduced
from the picture Of woodrow Wilson,
the answer is plain, for on the other
side of the same egg, traced IN the
same queer blue lines Is map OF the
United States.
Greenville, August %: S. A. Pruett
of Hendersonville, N. c., is dead and
three women and man, who refused
to give their names to the coroner or
sheriff Of this county, are more or less
injured as the result Of an automobile
wreck, en- route from Asheville, N. c.,
to Spartanburg, S. c., the car turning
turtle seventeen miles from Greenville
at s o'clock this morning. The party
left Asheville some time Monday and
spent a portion Of the night at Hen
dersonville. There they changed auto
mobiles and continued their journey
toward Spartanburg this morning.
While speeding along country road at
q rapid pace the driver, Pruett ran
the machine into a ditch. One Of the
women had two fingers broken and her
spine injured. She and one of the
other women in the party are confined
to their room in farm house near the
scene of the accident. The other wo-
man and a man departed hastily. 1t is
understood two of the women are mar
ried. Nothing could be learned Of the
man. 1t is said that the people are
tourists and went out for Joy ride.
One Of the women was forced by the
coroner to make an affidavit, in which
she gave her name as Mrs. NJ. A. Har-
riman of Georgia, and the names OF the
others as Mrs. c. Adams, Miss Millie
Wing and Mr.. c. Burnett, all Of Flor
ida. That all these names are ficti-
tious, is the statement made tonight
by one Of the attending physicians,
who said that one of the women re-
vealed, in confidence, the identity OF
the party. Later an Associated Press
dispatch from Macon, Ga, told Of news
from Hendersonville of an accident to
Mrs. Marshall Rogers, wealthy wild
ow of social prominence and her
daughter, Minnie, 1S years old.
Purcell, Okla, August "a: While
5000 men, women and children stood
by shouting their approval, Peter Car
ter, a negro, who had been captured by
three members of his own race and
identified as the man who last night
attack Mrs. Minnie Spraggins, wife
of a farmer, was burned to death on a
brush pile in the main street of Pur-
cell at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Deputy
Sheriff Hayes and Under Sheriff Far
ris, who attempted to rescue the negro
from the crowd, were overpowered and
locked in the court house. Mrs
Spraggins was assaulted while alone In
her home one mile south of Purcell
After the deed, the negro set fire to
the Spraggins home. Mrs. Spraggins
husband saw the flames while working
in the fields and rushed into the house
in time TO rescue his wife. She said
that Carter, who formerly worked on
the Spraggins farm, had attacked her
Carter was found and taken into Gus
tody but on the way to jail escaped
Farmers of the neighborhood made an
all-night search for him but in vain
This afternoon Hugh Henry, negro
janitor, noticed a strange negro hiding
under a box car near the Oklahoma
hn niT