Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-26
Scraps aud fatts.

court. IN the SdUle case TIeSiuSht
Samuel Gompers recently was SEN
fenced to one year and Secretary
Frank Morrison to six months. Mr..
Mitchell was not in court, but sent a
written statement waving his right to
be present. He was to have been SEN
fenced last week, but Justice Wright
then declined to pass sentence because
he objected to the form Of waivers sub
mitted for Mr.. Mitchell.
The Federal government will no
longer pay the expenses Of officers or
employees Of the department Of agri-
culture to deliver lectures or impart in
formation on agriculture to assembled
farmers, students Of universities, sum-
mer schools or boys camps as has been
the custom of the past. Comptroller
Tracewell Of the treasury department
so advised Secretary Wilson today In q
broad Interpretation OF a recent act OF
congress prohibiting the payment by
the government of dues of employees
for membership in associations or their
travelling expenses to conventions or
meetings, unless specifically authorized
by congress. Secretary Wilson thought
his department escaped the embargo
because the organic act OF the depart
ment stipulates that on: Of its func-
tions is to acquire and diffuse to the
people Of the country useful Informs
tion regarding agriculture. The comp
troller also held that Secretary Fisher
was not authorized to pay expenses OF
field agents of the interior department
to attend conferences with local organ
izations on land matters.
Washington, July "a: Approving
individual action taken by postmasters
of many large cities, Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock has issued q general or
der which has the avowed purpose OF
checking the use of general delivery
windows for carrying on flirtations
and clandestine correspondence. Any
persons who wish mail at general de-
livery windows instead OF home ad-
dresses may hereafter be required to
give their reasons in writing. Many
complaints have been received by the
postoffice department that service at
general delivery windows was being
Improperly used by minors, particular
" young girls, and by residents ordi-
narily served by mail carriers. Under
the postal regulations postmasters may
require all persons to furnish In writ
ing their names and addresses and
statements of their reasons for pre-
ferring to receive their mail at the
general delivery. In addition minors
may be required to furnish the names
of their parents in order that they may
be notified and have an opportunity to
control the delivery Of mail to their
children Postmasters at offices not
having city carrier services may notify
the parents Of minors in all instances
where 1t appears to them that the mi
nors are using the general delivery to
obtain mail under Objectionable condi-
tions. Postmaster General Hitchcock
directs all postmasters to enforce the
regulations strictly and impartially.
Fear Of revenge at the hands Of the
East Side gangsters, ever present in
the minds of witnesses in the Rosen-
thai murder investigation, temporarily
blocked the efforts Of District Attorney
Whitman of New York last Wednesday
to draw closer the lines about the men
who assassinated the gambler ten days
ago. Apparently awed by the presence
of gangsters in the coroner's court,
John Reisler, barber known to the
sporting fraternity as John the Bar
ber," retracted at the coroner's exami-
nation a statement he Is alleged to
have made few minutes earlier to Mr..
Whitman, that he had seen Bridge"
Webber, now under arrest, running
from the scene Of the murder. After
Reisler had denied his earlier state
ment he was arrested on charge OF
perjury. The coroner's hearing We'd
nesday afternoon was in the nature of
an examination of "Bridgie" Webber
and Sam Paul, both OF whom are
charged with completely in the murder
of Rosenthal The prosecution charges
that 1t was in Webber's gambling
house, near the scene Of the murder at
43rd street and Broadway, that the
murder gang congregated to go to the
place Of the killing. 1t was to connect
Webber more closely with the case that
John the Barber" was placed on the
stand. Having failed in his attempts
to get desired statements from the wit
nesses, District Attorney Whitman Sc
cured adjournment of Webbers exam
ination for forty-eight hours in order
that more witnesses might be secured
to bring out his connection with the
case. The examination Of Sam Paul
was likewise put over. 1t Is believed
that Mr.. Whitman is laying his lines
to force from Webber a statement
which will implicate those higher up
in the case At the door Of the police
system" the district attorney places
the responsibility for the murder Of
the man who had charged that the
police were exacting tribute from
gamblers in New York, and Mr.. Whit
man has admitted that he will make 1t
easy for those under arrest If he can
secure the evidence which he desires
against the police.
Atlanta Journal: T. A. Brown, hero
and heir to en- estate Of 100000, which
was left him by Lord Rumsford in ap-
probation of an act Of bravery when
Mr.. Brown, then one of Uncle Sans
sailors, saved the nobleman's daughter
from drowning, has been located. Mr..
Brown is leading the simple life in the
country, near Marietta, Ga When the
chief Of police of Atlanta received an
inquiry for Mr.. Brown, who it was un-
derstood, had been a member of the
police department in 1907, there was no
one then who could place the man. But
Mr.. Brown identified himself to Chief
Beavers Monday morning as one of
the men who worked extra during the
holidays in 1907. He only worked a
few days with the city department, as
the records show. There was no more
surprised man in Georgia that T. A
Brown when young Capt. Joyner, son
of ex-Mayor Joyner, told him Sunday
what he had seen in the Atlanta pa
pers. Mr.. Brown had never seen the
account Of how a search was being
made for him in order that he might
get MS lnneTltdnCe. MI. DEO"H lolu
Chief Beavers all about how he had
saved the girls life, as she was thrown
overheard when a pleasure craft was
run into by tug boat on the after
noon of August Is, 1904. Brown was
then in the United States navy, and
stationed at Hong Kong. He said he
didn't do any more than his duty, and
was surprised to think that the girls
father had thought so much of him. He
said the Englishman was most profuse
in his thanks when he got the girl on
board, and though he asked for his
full name and where he came from, 1t
never occurred to him that he was to
be remembered in such a manner. Mr..
Brown says the girl was beautiful, and
that he understood she was an only
child, and that the family was one of
the wealthieSt in the Chinese metropo-
lis. The young man left the chiefs Of
flee with letter of Identification from
Chief Beavers, and said he would at
once place his claim in the hands Of
some lawyer.
- Death and widespread devastation
from tremendous rains resulted last
Wednesday in western Pennsylvania,
eastern Ohio and West Virginia. From
all sections comes details telling of
persons drowned or reported drown
ed; of hundreds of buildings wrecked
or completely washed away; of streets
torn IN and bridges SWeDt down: of