Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-17

March. TheSe instructions eau lor
the most advance target practice on
the part Of a naval floating organiza-
tion ever undertaken anywhere in the
world. Lieutenant Commander Pal
mer, as director of target practice, in
stead Of inspector" as heretofore, will
have direct supervision over all prac-
tices.
President Taft has issued the fol-
lowing proclamation calling for funds
to aid the famine sufferers in China:
LAS president of the American Red
Cross, I appeal to the people Of this
country to aid the unfortunate null
titudes who are dying Of starvation
because of famine in China, either by
money contributions which should be
sent to the local Red Cross treasurers
or the Red Cross, Washington, D. c.,
or by assisting in raising a cargo of
flour and other suitable supplies to be
sent to those people. Congress has
granted the use of an army transport
to the Red Cross for this purpose. The
Seattle Commercial club, Of Seattle,
Wash, is cooperating with the Red
Cross and will act as receiving and
trust that our people will respond gen.
erously and that the transportation
lines will aid in the delivery at Seat
tle."
The wall Street Journal" asserts
that statistics from the late census
show that the national wealth Of the
United States may with safety be es-
timated at approximately 125 billions
of dollars, an increase Of thirty one
billions since 1900 and eighteen billions
since 1904. With the population Of the
United States proper heretofore given
at 100000, it will be seen that the
per capita wealth is Sl,359. A little
over 100 years ago the per capita
wealth only stood at $1SS, and 1t will
thus be seen how great the increase
has been, but the wall Street Jour-
nal" says our per capita wealth has not
advanced proportionately any faster
than that Of France, Or the United
Kingdom in the last decade. The
money now in actual circulation in the
United States is 1921 550,465. This
is $34.43 per capita. This is sixty
seven cents per capita less than the
amount in circulation in 1900.
New York, February IA: The
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search announced today that the ef-
fectiveness of anti-meningitis serum
had been generally accepted by medi-
cal authorities throughout the world,
and that the new remedy had taken its
place with vaccine and diphtheria an
titoxin las an improved agency for the
protection of public health" The oc-
casion for this announcement was the
notice given by the institute that here
after it would discontinue free distri
button of the serum which has been
carried on since it's discovery, and de-
vote the funds used for this purpose
to other lines of investigation. The
New York city board Of health has un-
dertaken the production of the new
serum and for short time will supply
urgent requests from outside the state
In this city the board will designate
stations where the remedy will be
kept always on hand. The Rockefel-
Ter institute says that by the early
use Of the serum the death rate from
cerebro- spinal miningitis has been re-
duced two-thirds.
Nathan Montague, negro, was
electrocuted in the North Carolina
state penitentiary at Raleigh last Wed
nesday morning at 1890 o'clock. His
crime was the murder Of an entire
family and criminal assault. The hor-
Der last. He denied the crime almost
to the last, but on Tuesday made full
confession. He said he went to the
home of ]. L. Sanders in Granville
county on the evening Of the tragedy
to see about killing some hogs. While
there he chopped some wood and while
so engaged Miss Sanders came out
and carried 1t into the house. He then
planned the crime. Words passed be-
tween Sanders and Montague when the
former told the negro to go home.
The negro then grabbed chair and
struck Sanders over the head killing
him. He then killed the granddaugh-
ter. Miss Sanders ran out into the
yard and he followed and seized her.
He says he had to cut her with knife
and beat her into insensibility before
he could accomplish his purpose, af-
ter which he dragged her body into the
house and fired 1t.
-Pittsburg, Pa, February 16 Graft
in the Pittsburg school boards as ex-
posed in a bulletin issued to the pub
lie by the Voters Civic league today
has not yet received official notice
from the district attorney, who after
reading the bulletin said he would
wait to ascertain if the league would
make informations and take up the
prosecution of the alleged offenders, as
1t did in the councilmanic graft cases
last spring. The league declares that
1t intended to prosecute the Offenders
but they were so numerous that the
arrest of all would clog the wheels of
justice. The bulletin Is therefore given
the public as a warning to the wrong
doers that they might mend their ways.
The names of the individual members
do cpiI-Qn
but the personnel is attacked, the
charge being made that the majority
are gamblers, .bartenders, saloon
keepers, political employees, placed on
the boards to control votes" and 9TH
ers. The charge is made that grating
through contracts is prevalent to such
an extent that II cannot be described.
A few cases cite that as low as $25
was paid board members and as high
as $1,000 for votes to place contracts.
On one contract of 100000, it is as
serted, one-third of the amount was
paid to school board members in graft.
Teachers have been forced to pay for
their appointments, janitors and truant
officers held up, and when everything
else failed the grating directors can
always borrow money from agents and
contractors, who do business with the
school. The money is never returned
saws the report. "School picnics have
become popular in recent years, es-
pecially with lower wards of the city.
1t is illegal to spend school funds for
such purposes. Some Of these school
picnics have been nothing more than
drunken orgies for the directors and
their dissolute and disreputable friends.
Children from the schools have been
taker to picnics with men and women
of the underworld. They have seen
drunken women from the tenderloin on
the dancing platform and gamblers
plying their vocation on the grounds
Washington, February Is: After
many years of delay the bill looking to
the creation of National Forest Re
serves in the White Mountains and the
Southern Appalachians, passed the
senate late today, the vote standing
81 to g. Negative votes were cast by
Senators Bristow, Burton, Clark OF
Wyoming, Cullom, Gronna and NC
Cumber, Republicans, and Senators
Davis, Paynter and Shiveley, Demo-
Gratis. The bill passed the house OF
representatives last session and as IT
was accepted by the senate without
change, it lacks only the signature of
the president to elevate it into statute.
The entire day was given to the sub
ject by the senate. Senators Bran