Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-24
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ficials of the Farmers Unions and 9TH
ers interested in the staple have Sc
cured accommodations. The govern
ors who have so far accepted the in
vitations are: w. w. Kitchen of North
Carolina; w. Hodges Mann of Vir-
ginia; E. F. Noel of Mississippi; Lee
Cruce of Oklahoma; ]. Y. Sanders of
Louisiana; Hoke Smith of Georgia;
Benjamin w. Hooper of Tennessee;
Emmett O'Neal of Alabama; George
w. Donaghey of Arkansas; Cole l..
Blease of South Carolina and Herbert
S. Hadley of Missouri. Governor o.
B. Colquitt of Texas, who called the
conference, Is in touch with the COM
mittees on arrangements here, and
will arrive in time for the meeting.
Referring a few days ago to re-
cent publications relative to the res
toration Of the large fountain or gey-
ser which for many years played at
Round Knob, n. c., in sight of pass
ing trains on the Southern railway.
President Finley said: There seems
to be some misapprehension as to the
restoration of this geyser. On a trip
which he made through western
NOrth Carolina several months ago,
Mr.. George F. Baker, Of New York,
noted that the geyser was no longer
flowing Inquiries having satisfied
him that II would be practicable to
restore it, he arranged to have the
work done entirely at his expense as
a testimonial of his high appreciation
of the great service rendered by his
friend, Colonel Alexander B. An
drews, vice-president Of the Southern
Railway company, In the development
of western North Ca Nlina. The work
of restoration is now under way and
the new geyser will soon be in opera
ton, throwing a column of water
$50 feet in the air."
-Tripoli, October %: The fighting
at Benghazi, between the Italians and
the Turks has been Of the. f1ercest
character. After an engagement which
lasted all day, October 19. the Turks
retreated. They made a savage on
slaught on the Italian camp, but were
repulsed. In the morning the Italian
forces occupied the city. The Turkish
losses were very heavy and the Italians
number not less than 100. There are
good grounds for believing that the
italian forces at Benghazi have been
very severely handled by the Turks
and their Arab auxiliaries. 1t Is un-
derstood that the italian losses are
much heavier than reported. Color Is
given to this belief by the hurried de-
parture for Benghazi of four warships
and the hospital ship Reina Margyta.
Steamer passengers who went to Ben
ghazi but were unable to land, say
that the Turks and Arabs have dis
played reckless bravery in making fu-
rious night attacks on the small ltal-
ian force intrenched there. There are
also reports of massacres Of Christians
at Derna and BenghaZi, but no con-
firmation of these has been received.
Spokane, Wash, October %: Mrs.
Clara A. Wright, 25 years of age. wife
of H. C. Wright, a rural mail carrier
at Davenport, Wash, has entered the
mayoralty race in that city. The pri-
maries will take place on November Z.
and the election on December 5. Geo.
z. Craig, county superintendent or
schools, Is the other candidate for
mayor. His name will appear on the
Independent ticket In the primaries.
There Is no contest on either ticket.
Mrs. Wright was the first woman to
file for office in Lincoln county since
the state law for equal suffrage be-
came effective She Is a native OF
Oregon, born at Eugene in 1885. She
is the mother OF three children. The
oldest is five years Of age, the young
est being a babe in arms. Mrs. Wright
Is a stanch advocate Of woman suf-
frage and is not dismayed in the least
by the troublesome experiences Of the
woman mayor Of Hunnewell, Kan,
saving: 81 am a candidate on the citi-
zens' ticket and If elected I shall give
the city of Davenport clean admin
istration so far as 1t Is possible Tor lts
mayor to direct"
= The imperial Chinese forces met
with defeat Wednesday, at Hankow,
lriHr from
the rebels. The extent of the defeat
Is not yet known. but the government
forces are reported to be. entrenched
seven miles north of Hankow, await
ing reinforcements. The warshipS
which took part in the engagements,
with one exception, retreated down
the river. One of the vessels, 1t Is
related, went over to the revolution
lists. Consular dispatches received at
Peking from the province or Yum
Nan, reported disaffection among the
troops there, who Threatened to mu-
tiny The Chinese government ad-
mits a serious situation at Chang Sha,
province of Hu Nan, and this admis-
sion is believed to indicate that the
people of Chang Sha have Joined the
revolt It Is feared by the legations
at Picking that news of the repulse OF
the government forces at Hankow will
utterly demoralize' the troops now
mobilizing and also that the provinces
south of the Yang Use, and some OF
those north of the river. will secede
A financial crisis is threatened at
Shanghai, where several native banks
have suspended payment.
Rev. Clarence V. Richeson, pastor
of a leading Baptist church in Cam
bridge, Mass, has been committed TO
Jail on the charge of having murdered
Avis Linnell, a young music pupil to
whom he was alleged to have been en-
gagged to be married. The young wo-
man was found dead in the bathroom
of the Young Woman's Christian asso-
citation building in Boston on Satur-
day, October IA. Her death was a
mystery at first and from her physical
condition it was thought that she had
committed suicide. Later, however,
her mother told of her having been en-
gagged to marry Mr.. Richeson, and ar
terward a druggist told of Mr.. Rlche-
son having purchased cyanide OF po-
tassium with the explanation that he
wanted it for the purpose of killing a
dog. Investigation showed that he had
no dog There was testimony that
RicheSon had dined with Miss Linnell
a few hours before her dead body was
discovered. Richeson, when arrested,
had nothing to say, put went qulelly
to jail. Later it came out that he was
also engaged to be married to another
young woman, Miss Violet Edmands,
on October 81. BY a coincidence Oc-
tober 81 was fixed as the date for the
preliminary hearing of the case. A
story comes from Kansas City, Mo-, to
the effect that Richeson was pastor OF
the church there from 1901 to 1904:
He left there because at the close OF
one of his sermons three young women
arose and declared that he had prom
ised to marry each of them. MISS
Linnells mother stated that the date
of the marriage of her daughter and
the preacher had been fixed and after
ward postponed.
Get the uninterested women in
terested in the suffrage by indirect
means" was the consensus of opinion
EXPRESSED at the forty-third annual
convention of the National Ameri-
can Woman suffrage association In
session at Louisville, KY. Interest
the Indifferent women in some reform
first of all" advised Miss Kate M.
Gordon of New Orleans. "A woman
listens first with her heart, then with