Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-09-03
Scraps and fats.

increase over year before last OF
5,52S,75S and an increase over lsOS-
1909 of 2,312,969, according to figures
complied today by Col. II. G. Hester
secretary of the New Orleans cotton
exchange. Southern consumption was
the largest of any previous year
2,744,O67 bales being used by south
ern mills. This exceeded last year )
total by 360,451 bales, and was In ex-
cess of the largest previous consump~
ton which was in 190S-09 by 1884,
1s4 bales. Secretary Hester's annual
statement, which includes port move
ments, exports and the worlds con-
sumption of American cotton, etc,
will be issued within the next few
days.
Flint, Mich, August 80: In the
presence of hundreds Of people, ID
year-old Chester Belts, son Of Bert N.
Belts, of Flint, was accidentally
caught by the guy rope OF balloon
today and carried about 1000 feet In
the air before the rope untangleo
and hurled him to his death. He
crashed against the roof OF barn
and was still alive when spectators
reached him, but he soon expired.
The tragedy occurred at county fair
and when the ballon and aeronaut
the youth dangling at the end of the
rope was q dummy. The heroic Ell
forts Of the ballonist to rescue the boy
soon disclosed the truth to the crowd
below. AS the big gas bag crept
higher and higher the aeronaut, In
peril of his own safety, could be seen
working desperately to pull the dang
ling form to the trapeze. Finally the
rope swirled away from the lad ana
the tiny form dropped downward like
q stone.
-Berne, Switzerland, August 81:
A frenzied Swiss soldier ran amucK
last evening and transformed the lit
tie town of Romanshorn on Lake
Constance into a miniature battlefield
strewn with dead and dying. The SOL
dier is a native Of the town and Is
named Schwartz Suddenly in mt
of madness he seized his rifle and
shot everyone within range OF the
windows Of his house, killing four ana
wounding six men in a few minutes.
He then baricaded himself in his resi-
dence. When night fell the house was
surrounded by armed police and clti-
zens among whom an hour or so later
a panic broke out, when they heard
shot. The beseigers, under the i'm
preston that Schwartz had come
one another down until a dozen or
them lay badly wounded on the
ground. During the scare the mad
soldier escaped from his house and
fled to the forest, where he Is still at
large and armed.
Roanoke, Va, August 80: Today
w. G. Baldwin received letter from
a chief of police in Silver Bow coun-
ty, Montana, who writes that two men
answering the descriptions OF Stdna
Allen and Wesley Edwards, the Hills
Vile fugitives, have been seen In that
vicinity and that the authorities there
are working to land them. The let
ter further states that a family OF
Hatfie,ds from West Virginia are
living near there and 1t Is supposed
that the two men are being cared for
by them. While Mr.. Baldwin says he
thinks 1t is possible that the men are
the two hunted outlaws, at the same
time he fears there Is some mistake
as to the identity. He says the letter
came from the chief. who should be
a reliable source Mr.. Baldwin said to-
day that he and his men have aban-
doned the search for the men in the
Blue Ridge section. Mr.. Baldwin
was then asked If 1t was to be infer
red that he is of the opinion that the
men have left the state, and he replied
in the affirmative.
- Boston, August 80: William
Wood, president Of the American
Woolen company, was placed under
arrest today, charged with conspiracy
in connection with the alleged "plant-
ing' Of dynamite in the city Of Law
renee during the textile strike there
last winter. 1t is charged that the dy-
Mantle was secreted with the inten-
ton of discrediting the strikers by i'm
plying that the explosive was to be
used by them to destroy property OF
the manufacturers. Mr.. Wood, who
is one Of the leading manufacturers
Of wooden goods in the country was
at once released on $1,000 bail. The in
dictment against Mr.. Wood was one of
three returned by the grand jury
yesterday in connection with its inves-
tigation Of the alleged conspiracy
Detectives connected with the office Of
District Attorney Pelletier today Wis
tied the fashionable home in Brook
line Of a prominent business man, who
is named in one Of the indictments.
He was found to be i'll and with the
understanding that he Is to surrender
next week, probably Tuesday, service
Of the indictment was not made. The
third person indicted, Dennis ]. Col
lins Of Cambridge, was arrested yes
terday and is in Jail in default of bail.
Ell Paso, Texas, September 2:
Death at the hands Of rebels was
fate of an American citizen, Joshua
Stevens, while he fought to protect his
two daughters in Colona Pachecho.
News of the tragedy was received here
by o. P. Brown, business agent of the
Mormon colonies in Mexico. At first 1t
was reported that Stevens was killed
by an American, but this report was
sent, 1t was said, to avoid trouble with
the rebels, who still invest the Ameri-
can settlements southeast Of Juarez.
Two rebels visited the Stevens home
apparently with intentions on the two
young women of the household. Ste
vens met the intruders with shotgun
and escorted them to the limits of his
property. According to the story told
by his daughters, one of the MeXicans
drew a sword bayonet from his belt
and thrust 1t into the Americans body.
Stevens fired and fell dead over the
man whom he had killed. The other
Mexican fed. The case has been in
vestigated by Junius Romney, presi-
dent Of the colonies. 1t is said to make
the fifth murder of American settlers
by rebels in the district. President
families return to the colonies until
quiet is restored. 1t is declared that
the Federal soldiers strung out be-
tween Juarez and Chihuahua have not
left the railway and that the American
colonies are absolutely unprotected.
Washington, September L: Under
authority conferred by the postoftice
appropriation bill, Postmaster General
Hitchcock today increased the salaries
of rural letter carriers on standard
routes from $1,000 to $1,100 a year,
thus affecting 10000 men with pro-
portionate increases to carriers on
shorter routes. The order will become
effective September 80. This will
mean an increased disbursement of
$4,000,000 a year. 1t is the second
salar- tdvance for rural carriers made
in the last four years. At the close of
the last fiscal year on June 80, there
were 42,031 rural mail carriers. the
aggregate pay being $40,655,740.
When the rural delivery system was
instituted sixteen years ago, S3 car
riers were employed at an annual
cost Of $l4,S40, the maximum indi-
vidual pay being $500 year. The in
crease provides rural carriers ad-
equate compensation for additional
burdens to be imposed by the parcels