Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-28
Straps and fatts.

If not all, of the victims were employ
ed by the Triangle Waist company, on
the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of
q ten-story loft building at % Wash
ington Place. on the western fringe
of the downtown wholesale clothing,
fur and millinery district. The part
ners Of the firm, Isaac Harris and Max
Blanck, escaped unscathed from the
office on the tenth floor, carrying with
them over an adjoining roof, Blanck's
two young daughters and a governess.
There was not an outside fire escape
on the building.
Ten thousand dollars in currency
was stolen from a mail pouch in tran
sit between Tampa and Clearwater,
Fla, last Thursday night. The theft
was discovered when the mail pouch
reached st. Petersburg, Fla, Friday
morning, at 10 o'clock, having been
carried by it's destination. Clearwa-
ter The pouch had a slit in one side
eight inches long. The registered
package had been torn open, the mon
ey extracted. and the casing pushed
back in the mail bag. The money was
shipped from Tampa at 4.40 o'clock
Thursday afternoon by the Exchange
National bank and was consigned to
the Bank Of Clearwater. Postal OFF,
cials decline to give any information un-
til postoffice detectives arrive to make
an investigation. The robbery Is sup
posed to have been committed while
fourteen mail bags for Clearwater
and points south of that city were
left lying on the platform at Tarpon
Springs for over eight hours waiting
for the Atlantic Coast Line train,
which was eight hours late.
Galveston, March 26: Ammunition
is being loaded aboard the scout
cruiser Salem, the gunboat Tacoma
and three transports in port. Every
preparation is being made for war.
even though the mobilization Of troops
and war vessels here results in moth
ing more serious than war play. While
no official advices bearing upon the
proposed movement of the troops
have lcen received here, personal let
ters from those high in authority In
Washington indicate that the war scare
practically has vanished and that q
f'.rther display of armed force Is re-
garded as unnecessary. Gen. Mills Is
proc eeding with the work of training
the brigade under his command just
as though war was imminent. During
the present week he expects to send
each of the three regiments on long
hikes up the beach. No word has
been received here from Rear Admiral
Staunton's armored cruiser fleet, which
was expected to arrive here today
from Guantanamo. 1t Is believed here
that the four vessels are still at the
Cuban station awaiting orders.
Washington, March 26: Magazines
and other bulky periodicals, after July
/, will be transported by the postoft1ce
department in carloads as fast freight.
Postmaster General Hitchcock Is de-
veloping as rapidly as possible plan
to utilize fast freight in the transpor-
tation of magazines when practicable
and in instances where saving to the
government in transportation charges
may be effected. The quadrennial
weighing Of the mails in the third
contract section of the country, COM
prising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Missouri, is now in progress. BY di-
rection of the postmaster general,
given in accordance with his plans for
transporting periodical mail by fast
freight, the weights of monthly and
mi-monthly periodical mail matter
originating in large publishing centres
are being taken and kept separately
from the weights Of other mails The
great publishing centres are Boston,
Springfield. Mass; New York, Phil
adelphia and Chicago. From July
next, periodicals that can be trans
through the section weighed without
disadvantage in delivery will be car
ried in this manner and paid for at
freight rates. -.
In one Of the worst railroad disas-
ters in the history of the South At
lantic states eight persons are known
to have been killed and dozen or
more injured when southbound train
No. 95 known as the Dixie flyer, went
through a trestle over the Alapaha
river, eighteen miles east of Ocilla,
Ga, about o'clock last Saturday
morning. The baggage and express
cars, two day coaches and a Pullman
went into the river, but five Pullmans
remained on the track. This fact
alone is believed to be all that pre-
vented wholesale loss of life. The re-
vised list of the dead and injured Is
given as follows: o. F. Bonwart, Hen
derson, KY; w. w. Culpepper, Triton,
Ca; Mrs. w. D. Fletcher, Rowland,
ILL.,; John T. Watson, Lander, Wyo.; j.
P. Woodward, express messenger,
tor, Savannah, Ca; Lucius Ellis, fire
man, and Albert Simmons, porter, both
colored of Waycross, Ga ]. E. Powell,
baggagemaster, Jacksonville, Fla; j
P. Klein, wife and child, st. Louis,
father and mother bruised and child
scalded; Peter Gerlofs, Holland, Mich,
bruised; Nick Vandermelon, Grand
RAPIDS, Mich, bruised about the head
and knees; Mrs. o. F. Bonwart, Hen
derson, Ky: w. T. Perkins. Catletts-
burg, KY, bruised; ]. E. Greene, en-
gineer, Waycross, bruised.
Mexico City, March "a: The Diaz
cabinet resigned today. FoCowing a
meeting of that body at o'clock this
oft mi or fnn6arQ6
resignation to Gen. Diaz. AS yet none
of the resignation have been accepted,
but on an excellent authority 1t Is
stated but two Of the ministers-and
possibly not more than one-will be
asked to retain his portfolio. 1t is be-
lieved that Senior Limantour will re-
main. Members of the cabinet refuse
to comment upon their action, but 1t
Is stated semi officially that the initia-
tive was taken not by them but by the
president, who, 1t Is said, proposed to
surround himself with younger men In
the hope that such action will serve to
unite all elements of the nation. 1t
is probable that the acceptance Of the
designations will be coincident with
the announcement of the names Of the
new ministers. This announcement
may not be made for some days. Fol-
lowing are those whose designations
lister of foreign affairs; Ramon Corral,
minister Of interior; Jose Yves Liman-
tour minister of finance; Olegario
Molina, minister of fomento; Justo
Sierra, minister Of education; Manuel
Gonzales COSTA, minister of war and
marine; Leandro Fernandez, minister
of public works and communications;
Justine Fernandez, minister of JUS
tice. Without exception all of these
men have contributed valuable service
to their country and to their president,
but the popular feeling against them
has been growing steadily since long
before the beginning Of the revolu-
tion.
Russia has sent an ultimatum to
China, declaring that if an exhaustive
and satisfactory reply to the Russian
note of February 16 is not received by
March 2S it reserves to itself free
dom of action and will make the Chi