Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-01
Scraps and faets.

erage ten-year decline is little Over
six points. All states suffered deterior'
alton, but Arkansas showed the great
est loss, declining ten points for the
month. Texas fairly held its own
showing a loss Of only three points.
Spartanburg, September 2S: Ad
dressing the Spartanburg county med
ical society at their regular month";!
meeting yesterday, DR.. Phillip
Garrison, past assistant surgeon OF TIT
United States navy, and member o
the Thompson-McFadde Pellagrs
commission, said that while nothing
was positively known about pellagrs
except the symptoms and diagnosis
and diverse views were expressed
about the cause and treatment no
only by general practitioners but th'
theory that insects had something II
do with it is growing. DR.. Garrison
told the physicians that the commits
sion had been informed Of All case:
of pellagra in Spartanburg county
this summer and had visited anc
studied the cases Of 260. The com
mission investigated thoroughly the
theory. that pellagra is caused b!
spoiled corn. A village was picked
out and every family there was Wis
tied and questioned closely concern
ing the corn eaten and whence Il
came. While DR.. Garrison did moi
directly say so, he left the impression
that little foundation was found FOL
the spoiled corn theory.
New Orleans. September q: !!
was in the interest Of the south, SAID
Col. Roosevelt today, that he came in:
to the southland to make his appeal
in behalf of the Progressive party
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selves" he said, II want you to fee
free to vote as your conscience in
clines you to. If we win, want you
to take your share in steering the
wheels Of the nation. I am less en-
gagged in pleading my cause than In
pleading yours" Artificial political
barriers had hindered the south in the
past, he said, from its own interests
He appealed to those in the south who
believed as he believed to lay aside
traditions and join with the new par
ty. Col. Roosevelt spent the day In
New Orleans. He rode in parade
through the old French section and
the parks, and later spoke at the Win
ter Garden. Tonight he left for Ala
bama. At the Winter Garden Col
Roosevelt was given a demonstration
which continued several minutes
differed throughout from any other
of his campaign. He said political
conditions in the south reminded him
of a visit he made to Texas, when a
loving cup was presented to him.
Beverly, Mass, September 20: The
report Of the special senate committee
which investigated Mexico and the
revolutions of Maderio and Orozco
will not influence President Taft In
his policy towards that country. Pub
lished reports that have reached the
president here that the senate COM
mittee would report in favor Of in
tervention have been read with care by
the president but will not change his
attitude. This statement was made by
the president to callers today. His
position in regard to Mexico he told
his visitors has not changed since he
sent the Mexican ambassador hurrying
down to Mexico City with word from
the white house that Intervention
was not an impossibility. Mr.. Taft is
not prepared to call congress in extra
session to pass upon the need for in
tervention and he told his callers he
had no present intention Of doing So
He does not believe conditions in
Mexico are as bad as they were sever
al weeks ago. He is standing firm up
on his declarations to the Mexican
ambassador and believes that con-
ditions have improved since he told
him what might be expected from the
United States If the American lives and
property were not protected. He made
1t clear to friends that Intervention Is
just as far away today as it was then
it is not a probability but 1t Is not an
impossibility.
Gary, Indiana, September 25: A
crippled newsboy lay on an operating
table here near a girl whom he did
not know and allowed the surgeons
to take $50 square inches Of skin from
his useless leg, grated it onto the bad
ly burned body Of the girl and then
amputate his leg. The boy, William
Rugh, never had heard of the girl
Ethel Smith, Is years old, until he
read an account of a motorcycle ac-
cident which told she was so badly
burned that death was certain unless
a large amount Of healthy skin could
be grated onto her body. MY les
was useless, never had been any good
to me, so / offered to give 1t up to
save this girls life" was the boys ex-
planation Of why he made the sacri-
flee. When it became known that
Rugh had made such an offer a gen.
eral protest went up, led by the girls
mother. Letters came from all over
the country advising against the op-
Grafton. Seeing her daughter gradu-
ally nearing deaths door yesterday
the mother reluctantly announced she
would agree to the unusual operation
Arrangements were quickly made, and
today the surgeons removed the Skin
from the useless but healthy leg OF
the boy and patched it onto the girl
ha oil r.
ponement of a wedding. DR.. ]. A. Craig
surgeon in charge, was to have been
married today to Miss Mary Arnold
of Lebanon, Pa. When he learned
the operation was made possible by
the mother waving her protest he
hurried to Gary and officiated.
London, September 80: Balkan diff
ficulties have developed with alarming
rapidity to a point where only spark
Is needed to set the whole of south
eastern Europe afame. Three of the
Balkan states, by common consent
have ordered the simultaneous mob
ilization of their armies and are max
ing every preparation for immediate
hostilities Two possible explanations
are offered, the first, that coalition OF
the Balkan states exists for the purpose
of demanding from Turkey before she
mas time TO cOncluQe peace WIFI Italy,
the grant of complete autonomy to the
Macedonian provinces; the second
that, fearing Turkey will seek an issue
from her difficulties at home and
abroad in war, they are preparing
themselves for a possible attack
everything now seems to depend upon
whether the great powers are able to
bring sufficient pressure to bear to
prevent the outbreak of hostilities and
preserve the status quo in the Balkans
Today's developments appear fully tc
confirm the existence of a military
undertaking between Bulgaria, Ser
via, Greece and Montenegro directed
against Turkey. Turkey is making elab-
crate military preparations to meet
any hostile demonstrations in the Bal
kans, according to semi official state
ment published at Athens today. The
Ottoman government has called up
100000 men, forming eleven divisions
of redifs, or second reserves, for six
weeks training in field manoeuVres.
The Turkish troops sent from Thrace
to Albania some time ago have been
ordered to return to their stations so
that the only troops at present detach-
ed from their ordinary posts are those
concentrated in Saloniki along the
Dardanelles and at Smyrna in conse-
quence of the war with Italy.