Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-17
Scraps and facts.

laid to his charge, and he had worsted
the troops in several encounters. He
is said to have drawn an income of
some $4,000 a year by levying black
mail on two Sicilian provinces.
- Maria, Texas, March 16: By a
spectacular trick, patterned after the
exploits of Gen. De Witt in South
Africa, the insurrecto forces besieg-
ing the city of Ojinga, gained control
of the ford connecting the beleaguer-
ed city with Presidio last night and
effectively bottled up the federal
forces. Driving before them a herd
of 40 stampeded horses, four volun-
teers from the camp of Gen. Sanchez,
charged the crossing at II o'clock.
Firing their revolvers and using other
devices TO terrify the animals. they
drove the herd straight for the
trenches occupied by about 100 fed
erals guarding the crossing. AS the
frightened animals charged down the
river bank the federals met them
with a heavy fire and more than half
were killed. The others continued
the rush and many Of the soldiers de-
serted the rifle pits. By this time a
force of so insurgents who follow
ed the horsemen on foot came UP and
in the confusion advanced to within
200 yards of the federal lines hastily
digging rifle pits and establishing a
position. Three soldiers were killed
and one was taken prisoner. The lat
ter was roped by one Of the insur-
gent horsemen and dragged within
the lines.
Ell Paso, Texas, March Is: Cut
off from food supplies for the last
three weeks $4,000 inhabitants Of the
beleaguered city Of Chihuahua face
famine Insurrectos have surrounded
the city. Attempts by the federal SOL
diers to dash outside to forage have
failed. The insurrectos invariably
drive back the foraging expeditions
before they have proceeded any dis
tance from the city limits. Hundreds
Of women in Chihuahua, fearing star
vation, have taken their children from
the bottled-up town, and now bands
of them are roaming the country
Direct word from the city Of Chi
huahua was received here yesterday
afternoon through Jed Newkirk, an
American merchant, who travelled the
225 miles in an automobile, having
left there two days ago. He said
while conditions were severe and
much suffering is being endured, food
supplies would hold out for another
month, If necessary. No one heard
directly from the mobilization of the
frontier. The entire city was in ig-
norance Of the progress Of the revo-
!utionary movement, all telegraphic
communication with the outside world
having been cut off almost contin-
uously for two weeks.
-. Bristol, Tenn. March 16: lone
officer fatally wounded, another with
a finger shot off, and a third frighten-
ed from the scene, is a result of a
battle between three women on one
side and trio Of revenue officers on the
other at Long Fork near the Pike and
Letcher county border in Kentucky
Wednesday afternoon. Deputy Mar
shall J. Martin Potter and Possemen
Charles Smith and Garfield Small of
Pikeville. entered the Long Fork Sec
ton to arrest Charles Tackitt, aged
%, charged with moonshining. Tack
lit, though armed, surrendered with
out resistance but his mother, Mar
tha Tackitt, go years old, was anger
ed at the presence Of the officers and
together with her daughters, Mamie
Tackitt. aged 16 and Bette Tackitt,
aged IS, concluded they would give
the officers battle. The aged mother,
with a pistol, and the eldest daughter
with a 16-gauge shotgun, opened fire
upon the men. After several shots
had been fired, Smith fell mortally
wounded, being shot through three
times while Small had lost finger
and had the crown Of his hat pierced
with bullets. Smith, who was fatally
wounded, is a member Of one Of the
best families in the county. The boy
was then taken in charge by his
mother. not an officer being left on
the scene"
st Petersburg, March IA: The
Russo Chinese imbroglio has awak-
ened Russia to the fact that Chinese
distrust and resentment is response
BILE more than anything else for the
failure of amicable negotiations. Dis
quieting dispatches from the army of
occupation on the Chinese frontier
have effected much concern here.
These advices describe a disturbance
among the soldiers over the poor
quality of the food provided for them.
An outbreak was prevented by the
commanding general who ordered the
governor general of Russian Turkes-
tan adequately to oraganize supplies
are interested in Japan's attitude to-
ward the Russo-Chinese crisis. The
recent speech at Toyko Of H. Jjuin.
Japanese minister to China, In which
he declared for the integrity OF
China is commented upon in both
capitals as a possible warning to Rus
sia that Japan is jealous lest Russia
gain too great advantage as an out
come of the clash with China. Tele-
grams from parties on the staff of the
Chinese railways say the employees
generally have been replaced by
japanese and armed soldiers. The
military party frankly favors utilizing
the crisis to strengthen the Russia
garrison in the far east and to cor
rect the frontier strategically at
China's expense. This argues that
RusSo-Chinese relations are so strain
ed that nothing can be secured from
China amicably for many years to
come.
- Chattanooga. Tenn, March Is: In
the hearing of the case of the United
States against a certain number OF
barrels and kegs of coca-cola in the
Federal court here today some of the
most interesting testimony yet brought
out was given by DR.. Lyman F. Keb-
Ter, chief of the drug department of
the bureau of chemistry, Washington,
d. c. DR.. Kebler is the chemist who
made a test of coca-cola and today he
testified that coca cola contains caf-
feline. declaring that to each eight
ounce glass there were one and one
fourth grains of caffeine, which he
authorities in proof of his statement
that caffeine is a poison and cited
a number of deaths reported as being
caused by it's use. One of these wri-
ters had reported a case where four
and one-half grains of the drug had
produced death and he declared that
about three glasses of coca cola con-
tanned this amount of caffeine. DR..
Kebler testified as to the finding of
vermin and bugs in the vats as the re-
suit of his inspection of the cOca-cola
plant in Atlanta. He also testified that
caramel and brown sugar were added
because their Opaqueness tended to
conceal impurities in the COca-cola
syrup. DR. Rusby, for the government,
testified along the line of the name of
the drink COCa-cOla and stated that no
other product bore the name of either
coca" or "kola." Government chem
lists stated that coca-cola contained
neither coca nor kola and the effort of
the government will he to prove that
the drink is msbranded.