Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-15

schrank pleaded guilty to the shooting
of Col. Roosevelt. The court then de-
cided to appoint a commission 10 ex-
anime Schrank as to his SANITY.
Schrank appeared little concerned
over the fact that his liberty for
probably the next fifteen years was IN
jeopardy. my crime is a political
crime rather than crime agalnS!
humanity and I guess that with all
the political crime that has taken
place in the last few years they won
Schrank. However, II, they do give
II TO me hard, why, I guess / can take
INV medicine" Regardless OF
Schrank's plea or desire. District At
torney label had prepared to make
short shrift of the case, he announc-
ed. He had arranged to ask the court
for a commission to examine into the
assailant's sanity should he plead
guilty so that criticism Of the state
would not follow Incarceration In the
state penitentiary should 1t later de-
velop that Schrank was not mentally
sound.,f ..
Claude Swanson Allen, the hand
some young mountaineer who Is sched-
uled to go to the electric chair within
ten days for completely in the notori.
Gus Carroll county shooting case, Will
receive a gold medal for his defense OF
his father. Such Is the announced in
tention of friends and acquaintance
living in the adjoining counties. They
declare that the people Of Virginia
gave the daughter of Dexter Goad, the
court clerk, a gold medal for handing
loaded pistols to her father, and If she
merited that recognition then Claude
Allen deserved a gold medal for de-
Tending his father when court Officers
began firing at him and for remaining
at his fathers side when the latter
was wounded. He refused to leave, de-
claring ne had done his duty and would
take the consequences. The money 1or
the purchase of the medal Is now oelng
raised and in case the young man gets
a new trial the medal will be present
ed to him 80 that he can wear 1t at the
trial. People of Cumberland county,
Virginia, have held a mass meeting
and taken formal action demanding
that Governor Mann commute the SEN
tence of Claude Allen.
A plan to admit ex-presidents. eX-
vice presidents and eX-speakers OF the
house Of representatives to floors OF
the two houses Of congress, with the
privilege Of debate, but not OF voting
upon pending measures, mas peen
broached by w. ]. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan
statement was coupled with declara-
ton that he favored a change In the
time Of convening congress so that the
new session would begin shortly
after new members took office, Marcn
4. "The question is asked often, what
shall we do with our ex-presidents.,
Mr. Bryan said. Now that we will
soon have two ex-presidents 1t might
be worth while to consider what means
could be employed to utilize their ex-
perience and accumulated informa-
tion. 1t seems to me that the nation
might avail itself Of their services,
and at the same time afford them a
dignified means of keeping In commu-
nication with the public. II mas oc-
Cured to me that both these ends
could be attained by law giving an
ex-president the privileges or the
floor In both the senate and the house,
with permission to take part In de-
bate, without, Of course, the privilege
of voting or serving on committees.
The retiring vice president should be
given these privileges on the floor OF
the senate under the same limitations
and 1 see no reason why they should
not be accorded to an eX-speaker OF
the house If he retires from con-
gress."
New York, November II: Maud
Malone suffragette was found guilty In
the Brooklyn court of special sessions
today of disorderly conduct for inter
rupting a speech by President-elect
Wilson in the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music on October IS. Sentence was
suspended. Her counsel announced
he would take an appeal. MY con,
yiction seemed unwarranted, sald
Miss Malone after the trial. Il DO
not recall that any man was ever
found guilty in a similar case. MISS
Malone had issued an open invitation
to the suffragettes to come to the trlai,
but very few "votes for women ad-
vocates were in court and the decision
caused no demonstration. wearing
an orange colored suffrage badge
Miss Malone on the stand told her
story of the interruption of Gov. Will
son, whose opinion on woman sur
frage she had asked, and narrated
how she was dragged from the Acad-
emy of Music. She sought to justify
the interruption, declaring her pur-
pose was not to cause disturbance
but If possible to get from a presi-
dental candidate his opinion on wo-
man suffrage. Justice Fleming ma"
ruled that Miss Malone's right to ques-
ton publicly was not an issue, the
question being whether she w1ltuiiy
intended to make disturbance. MISS
Malone during the recent campaign
INTERRUPTED Gov. Johnson, Of Califor-
MIA.
War department officials who are
at the Sandy Hook proving GROUNDS
for a series of tests Of new l4-lnch
coast defense gun, believe that the
Il,
substitute the 12-inch bore cannon:
The 14-inch type, it is expected, will
be placed in the Panama canal fortl-
fications, in Honolulu and in Manila
harbor, as we'll as throughout the New
York harbor defenses. AS compared
with the 12-inch gun, the 14-lnch
type does not appear to nave mucn
greater weight or size, but in et1ciency
1t has marked advantage. The old
style cannon is good for only ~
shots, whereas the new gun VIII Stanu
$50 discharges before II is ready for
the junk pile. Furthermore, the con-
struction being partly Of wire, is much
less expensive The projectile. which
weighs 1850 pounds and is 65 inches
long is so per cent greater than the
12-inch shell, and the bigger weapon
has a 80 per cent larger range. The
14-inch gun, as installed at Sandy
Hook, weighs so TONS while the weight
Of the carriage complete is 2S6 tons
The weight of all parts of the gun that
move is 262 tons, and the weight Of
all the recoiling parts is $50 tons.
Each shot fired uses four bags of
smokeless powder, weighing S5 pounds
and costs $3.50. The gun itself rep
resents an outlay of $3.50 900. Each
projectile will penetrate any armor yet
manufactured up to a distance of
seven miles.
Not since the outbreak of the
Spanish American war made neces-
sary the issue of billions Of special
war tax stamps has the bureau of en-
craving and printing been so rushed
1t is due to the assumption Of the i'm
portant function of the express busi-
ness of the country through the
parcels post. The bureau must print
twelve different denominations of
stamps and five denominations of
special postage due" stamps. Less
than half of the designs have as yet
been approved. Not a stamp has yet
been printed. The bureau officials are
unable to get definite action from
Postmaster Gen. Hitchcock's special