Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-17


interstate commerce. 1t would pen
alize interstate communication by
mail, telegraph and express regard
ing transmission of information as to
illegal future deliveries.
Charging them with the murder
Of Myrtle Hawkins, the Henderson
county, n. c., grand jury on We'd
nesday returned true bills against
Nora Britt and Lizzie Shaft Of Ashe-
vile. The bills, containing a new
count, four in all, including five other
persons heretofore indicted in the
case. After the McCalls and Brad
leys were indicted by the grand jury
a few months ago the Shaft and Britt
women were bound over by a magis-
trate. The. new bill charges first de-
gree murder against the two women.
Geo. Bradley and Abner Mccall, Nc
Calls wife and Boney Bradley are
charged with being accessory after
the fact. The new count in the in
dictment charges all with conspiracy
to perform an illegal operation. The
Shaft and Britt women, who were
on bond, were arrested and will not
be admitted to bail. Solicitor John
son states that much new evidence
was brought out before the grand
jury. Capt. Garren, chief Of police,
left tonight for Asheville to get the
Bradleys, who are in Buncombe Jail.
The Hawkins cases have been set for
trial Monday.
- King Frederick VIII of Denmark,
died alone and unrecognized on a
street Of Hamburg, Germany, late
Tuesday night of apoplexy. His death
was instantaneous. His body was taken
to a hospital. The king had been
undergoing treatment for arterio-
sclerosis, and had completely recover
ed from an attack of Inflammation Of
the lungs, and was regarded as COM
pletely restored to health. The king
travelling incognito, arrived in Ham
burg Monday on his return from the
south. where he had been conva-
lescing from an attack Of Inflammation
Of the lungs. With the queen royal,
he took quarters at hotel. At 10
o'clock Tuesday night the king left
the hotel unaccompanied for a stroll.
He had gone only short distance
when he was overcome in the street,
and fell unconscious. Not being recog-
nized, he was rushed to a hospital in
an automobile. When members of his
suite became alarmed at his absence
and notified the hotel proprietor,
searchers found his body at the hos
pital. His body was removed to the
hotel. His son, Christian x, has been
proclaimed king.
proximately $500 square miles of
Louisiana's land inundated by the
Mississippi river flood waters and
more than 100, 900 people driven from
their homes in the parishes west of
the river from the Arkansas line al
most to the gulf, the most serious
crevasse Of the present disasterous
flood-Hymelia-p to add
another thousand square miles or
moe to the overflowed territory,
making homeless many thousands Of
persons. Tonight the Hymelia crew
asse, 35 miles north Of New Orleans
this city, had widened to approx
mately 700 feet and the water had
inundated about 40 square miles OF
rich sugar lands in st. Charles and
st. John the Baptist parishes. Work
was started today in the effort to tie
the ends Of the crevasse to prevent its
widening further, but the proposal to
close the big gap in an effort to save
the s25,000,000 to S30,000,000 Of
property which is threatened awaits
the action tomorrow Of the Mississippi
commission at st. Louis.
The magic Of baseball has
wrought a wonderful change in the
United States penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, according to a correspondent.
For the first time in the PRISONS his
tory, not one convict is undergoing
punishment for breaking prison
rules. Such irfractions are punished
by putting the convict in striped
clothing, and now there is not one
convict so clothed. All this, so pris-
on officials say, is due to the organ
iZation Of the three baseball teams
among the convicts. Infraction of
the rules, in addition to the striped
clothing, results in the convict's base
ball pass being taken away, so he is
not permitted to witness the prison
games. 1t used to be usual to find
anywhere from twenty to fifty men
after the notification that infraction
Of the rules meant loss Of the base
ball pass the chronic trouble makers
began to be so good that the officials
were startled. AS a result the prison
officials now are planning winter
amuSementS, such as vaudeville en-
tertainments and moving picture
shows, to keep the men on their good
behavior.
- Supported by all the progressive Re-
publicans the house Tuesday night
passed the Clayton anti-injunction bill
244 to 81. Every Democrat present
voted for it, and the result was an
nounced to the accompaniment Of a
remarkable demonstration. The legis-
lation is regarded as one of the
the interest Of organized labor.
Throughout the debate President
Gompers, Secretary Morrison and
a half dozen members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Federation of Labor, were interest
ed listeners. They occupied a front
row in the members gallery. The
opposition to the measure endeavor-
ed to put through a substitute
drawn by Representative Sterling, of
Illinois. This modified the sweeping
defeated, PIG to 4S. 1t was generally
said that the Clayton measure would
meet with little opposition in the
senate. The bill amends the law to
prohibit the issue of injunctions with
out notice being served on those af-
fected. Such injunction would be eff
fective for seven days only, and re-
newal would be possible only when
the court was convinced such action
was necessary for the conservation
of rights and property. John Doe"
ln1unCtlOnS WOulu De lInpOSSlDle anu
the rights of peaceful picketing" in
strikes or peaceful boycotts' would
be recognized.
A rich haul, variously estimated
at from $4,000 to 100000, was
made by two masked bandits, who
early Wednesday morning held up
the Queen & Crescent New York
limited train No. 2, near Oakola,
flag station eight miles south of Hat
tiesburg. Miss. and blew open the
safe of the Southern express car. Ex-
press officials tonight deny that the
sum obtained aggregated anything
like the latter figure, but declined to
make any estimate of the loss. The
bandits who are believed to be the
pair who held up the Mobile & Ohio
train at Corinth, Miss, in February,
made their escape and tonight were
still at large. When Sheriff Bennett
of Perry county reached the scene of
the holdup with bloodhounds about
dawn the trail of the robbers was
taken up by the dogs. This led them
to the junction of the New Orleans
& Northeastern railroad and a tap