Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-28
Scraps and faets.

DearanCe before the senate 10 snow
cause why they should not be pun
ished for contempt. The alleged con-
tempt consists in the refusal of the
three men, who are bankers, to submit
as evidence before the senate commit
tee that is investigating bribery, the
bank records of their customers. 1t
has been alleged that these bank books
might prove some of the stories told OF
money said TO have been subscribed
towards the election of William Lor-
inner as United States senator. Under
oath all three have denied any knowl-
edge of any such funds and have
sworn that their accounts show moth
ing bearing on the subject. They
pleaded that to show the bank ac-
counts would be unjust to the custom
ers. The question of contempt was
argued before the senate today with
the result that the arrest of the men
was voted.
Kansas City, April 26: DR.. B. c.
Hyde, under a life sentence of impris-
onment for the murder of Col. Thomas
H. Swope. was released from the coun-
ty Jail today on writ Of habeas cor
pus. The Hyde case recently was re-
versed and remanded for new trial
by the supreme court. In the opinion
of the circuit court judges the major
ity of the evidence on which the ply
sician was convicted was circumstan-
tial and there was a reasonable doubt
of his guilt. The opinion rendered
this morning also takes into consid-
Grafton the fact that Judge Ralph 5.
Iatshaw, trial judge, had once admit
ted DIR. Hyde to bond. This bond was
revoked during the trial of the muir
der case by Judge Latshaw and Hyde
was committed to the county jail. Al
ter the reading of the decision the
bail of DR.. Hyde was set at $4,000.
Had DR.. Hyde's release been deferred
until tomorrow the period OF mis- In
generation in Jail would have been
exactly one year, as it was April q,
1910, during his trial that Judge Lat
shaw revoked the physicians bond or
$4,000 and remanded him to the GUS
tody of the county marshal. Next
Monday DR.. Hyde will appear in the
criminal court here and the date for
his second trial will be set.
Thomas A. Edison, who gave the
world tremendous improvements In
telegraphy, who discovered the means
Of making electricity commercially
available for light, who invented the
phonograph, the moving picture ma
chine, along with hundred other USE
full, but less notable contrivances, has
put the world under another debt OF
gratitude by perfecting a storage bat
terry that will revolutioniZe present
sources of commercial power. There
was a practical test under commercial
conditions at Concord, N. c., this week
the first effort to drive street cars
by means Of the new storage battery.
It was a complete success. The car
was driven on successive trips at
rate of cost estimated at AZ cents a
day against something over $3.50 for
the trolley cars. The battery is made
up of a nickel plated receptacle with
two nickel plated steel plates i'm
mersed in caustic potash. 1t weighs
only three fourths as much as the old
lead and zinc combination battery and
has ten times the life. Two ten-horse
motors driven by these batteries do as
much work as two twenties in the or
binary trolley car which is so much
heavier. 1t is only question OF time,
II Is thought, when the batteries will
be applicable to all kinds Of CONNER
cial and pleasure purposes.
Ell Paso, Texas, April 26: 1t devel"
oped today that peace negotiations are
proceeding by telegraph between Ma
dero's camp and the City Of Mexico in
order to leave for the commissioners
little but technical work, such as the
wording of the agreement, and that
the revolutionists view with some
alarm the announcement that Gen.
Bernardino Reyes is to return from
Paris. It is learned from an authen-
tic source that the revolutionists fear
Reyes will persuade President DiaZ
that Senior Limantour has persuaded
him into granting too many conces-
sions in order to bring about peace.
1t is said that Limantour and Reyes
have never been on good terms. To-
day kilograms were exchanged with
reference to a meeting place for the
commission. Madero favors the inter-
national boundary line here, where
he proposes to erect a commodious
tent in which to hold the sessions.
He argues that in this way alone will
1t be possible for him to participate
freely in the meetings and at the same
time be able to confer at any time
with the under chiefs of the revolution,
who will be present. Madero tonight
stated that nothing had been heard as
to the names of the commissioners.
For three days now there has been
disappointment on that score. The
rebel leader professed to see nothing
significant in the delay, however.
There is little or no interest adher-
ing to the question of who shot up
Brownsville, but William f. Curtis,
who has been trying to get across
Texas for several weeks, makes a
statement in the Chicago Record Her
aid that may call for another "inqui-
ry." Although the Brownsville affair
was investigated three times by the
war department, twice by congress,
and it's records fill several fat volumes
of closely printed type" says Mr.. Cur
tbs, 1T will always he the subject Of
controversy between the friends and
the enemies of the negro. 1t was
night raid made by eleven enlisted
men of the Twenty fifth infantry,
which was the garrison at Fort Brown,
upOn saloons i'm the neighborhood
which refused to sell drinks to color
ed soldiers. 1t is asserted here that
the eleven men who participated were
positively identified and warrants were
issued in their names. If the COM
mandant had permitted them to be ar
rested and punished that would have
been the end of it, but the officers of
the regiment, who knew the men that
did the shooting just as well as the
CulDrits themselves, not only encOur-
aged, but enjoined them to hold their
peace and it soon became a question
of honor for them to do so. No secret
was ever better kept, and it is re-
markable illustration of the fidelity or
the colored race. There is no doubt
that the whole affair was due to lax
discipline on the part of the officers.
who should have been punished in
stead of the men,"
- Washington, April 81: A bill pro-
viding for the enlargement of the ma
tiOnal house of representatives from
39l to 433 members. and the appoint
ment of these members to the differ