Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-28

prison. PENDING an appeal his bona
was fixed at $1,000. A month before
Sidna Allen led his band into Hills
Vile the circuit court, sitting at Rich
mond, granted a new trial and TINS
was to have been given at the term OF
court beginning next Monday. The
$4,000 bond is signed by Sidna Allen
and Floyd Allen and three other Car
roll county men. When 1t is declared
forfeited it is said that District At
torney Holton will recommend that II
be offered by the government as a re-
ward. This recommendation, 1t is
said, will also have the approval OF
Judge Boyd. At the time OF the trial
here Floyd Allen and other Carroll
county friends of Sidna Allen were
in constant attendance and deputy
United States marshals have since ad-
mitted that they had advices that the
Aliens would not submit to jail SEN
tence.
Senator Lorimer of Illinois, will
receive word direct from his friends
in the senate, says a Washington dis
patch, that they cannot hope to save
him in his fight for the retention OF
his seat. While 1t is not admitted
that Lorimer will be urged to resign,
it was said that he might decide on
that course. Vice President Sherman
left Washington Friday night for
Chicago. 1t was rumored that he
would see Senator Lorimer and com.
municate to him the result Of poll
of the senate that had just been con-
cluded. That poll shows: Certain
for Lorimer, 40; certain to oppose
him, SO; doubtful, 16. There is one
vacancy. The attitude Of the senator's
whose votes are classed as doubtful
has given the friends Of Senator Lor-
inner much concern. Although nearly
a week has gone since the poll was
made, the Lorimer supporters have
not been able to add one name TO
their list. Lorimer men were forced
to the conclusion that the list OF
doubtful votes was too large to give
them any chance to win If the case
was brought to a vote. 1t was de-
cided, therefore, to submit the exact
situation to Senator Lorimer. 1t was
argued that Senator Lorimer should
be content to rest on his former VIC
tory and the fact that a majority OF
the committee which Investigated the
charges the second time had re-
ported in his favor. One severe blow
to the Lorimer forces was the knowl-
edge that Senator Curtis Of Kansas,
who voted for Lorimer last session,
would be against him If the case
comes to a vote. Senator Curtis JUS
titles his change byhis friendship for
Clarence E. Funk of Chicago, general
manager of the International Harvest
er company. The Kansas senator
says the testimony given in the last
investigation clearly raises a question
of veracity between Funk and Edward
Hines, charged with having said he
helped put Lorimer over" Mr.. Cur
tbs says he believes Funk.
- Instructions and disorders in
Cuba which threaten the life and
property of Americans and are be-
Iieved by the United States to extend
beyond control Of the Cuban govern
ment caused the American govern
ment last Saturday to take active
steps in preparation to cope with any
situation which may arise in the is
land republic. Two divisions of the
Atlantic battleship fleet were ordered
to take on the full quota of marines,
making total of 1900 in addition TO
the 700 now en- route to Guantanamo
on the Prairie and rendezvous at Key
West ready to move to Cuba at the
instant their presence is needed.
dozen warships will be in the immedi-
ate vicinity Of Cuba within few days.
The army is prepared with an expe-
dictionary force of $4,000 men If 1t is
needed, and plans for a campaign to
stamp out the rebellion prepared by
the general staff are ready to be put
in operation at the call of the presi-
dent. The insurrection and the Sc
rious labor troubles as a result OF the
renewal Of the longshoremen'S strike
are believed to warrant American
preparedness. The American fleet,
made up of the third and fourth di-
visions of the Atlantic fleet, Will take
station off Key West ready to steam
into Havana within five hours and.
few hours later to any other north
coast point where serious disorders
may break out. 1t is believed the
near presence of one or more Of the
American warships, by its moral effect
would prevent violent demonstration.
Should this not be sufficient, recourse
will be had to the marine force, and
for this purpose 1900 additional ma
rines will be taken on at New York
and Norfolk. This force readily could
be supplemented by hundreds of blue
jackets, If necessary.
New Orleans, May 25: The fight
to close the big Hymelia crevasse in
the Mississippi river, 35 miles up the
river from New Orleans, has been lost
The attempt to check the immense
flow of the flood was abandoned at
noon today after conference be-
tween Capt. c.. o. Sheriff., chief of the
United States army engineers; Victor
Maurin, president of the Louisiana
levee board, officials of railroads
whose interests are concerned and
plantation and property owners af-
fected. This means that the yellow
water will be allowed to flow un-
checked over parts of five parishes,
containing some of the richest sugar
lands in the state, before finally find
ing its way into the Gulf of Mexico.
1t was estimated in the early fight
to close the crevasse that if the at
tempt failed it would result in a loss
to those living in the path of the flood
upwards of $10,000,00O. Many .peo-
pie in st. James, st. Charles, st. John
the Baptist, LaFourcher and Jeffer-
son parishes will be rendered home
less, adding to the thousands of refu-
gees already being cared for by the
government and state. The gap to-
night is 2,250 feet wide with the north
end constantly crumbling before the
swift current. All efforts to tie up the
upper end of the break have been
unsuccessful. The south end of the
embankment proved less troublesome.
With an average depth of 40 feet and
a 10-mile current, it is estimated that
100000 gallons Of water per second
are flowing through the break. Prac-
tically all the cribbing erected by the
engineers in an effort to check the
flood has been carried away by the
torrent. 1t was stated today by Pres
ident Maurin that another attempt
at closing the crevasse would not be
made until the water had receded
four or five feet.
Dan Davis, negro, was burned at
o'clock Saturday morning on the
public square at Tyler, Tex, after he
had signed a written confession that
he had criminally assaulted a 16-year
old white girl. Eight hundred persons