Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-19
Scraps and faets.

der When asked as TO Wnetner ne
had any objection to the letters be-
ing turned over to the committee
Hub Evans said, Lord bless my time
/ would be glad for the committee to
have them"
Columbia, March 15: Gen. Willie
Jones has issued a call for meeting
of the state executive committee, te
be held in Colur a April 10, at p
m, for the purL Sc of issuing a cal
for the state convention. The meet
ing was called for April 10 in order &c
allow the members who desire TO stay
over for the unveiling OF the monu'
ment to the women of the Confedera'
CIV, on April IL, the next day. Ac'
cording to the rules OF the party. the
Democratic clubs will meet on April
81 for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the county conventions, which
meet noon on May 6. The county con-
ventions elect delegates to the state
convention, which meets on May 10 al
noon.
washington, March Is: DR.. Har-
yey w. Wiley left the laboratory OF
chemistry tonight, where, for nearly
twenty mine years he had been CHIEF
chemist, no longer government ON
cial, but determined to champion the
cause Of pure food from the ranks ol
the people. Friction with his super
iors and irreconcilable differences OF
opinion as to the enforcement OF the
pure food and drugs act were the rea-
sons given by DR.. Wiley for handing
his resignation to Secretary Wilson
of the department Of agriculture. Dr
Wiley's resignation came as a dramat- L
ic climax to q long conference he had
with Secretary Wilson in the latters
private Office today. The secretary
would make no statement Of the case
otherwise than that DR.. Wiley mad
handed in his resignation. DR.. WHEY
will devote the remainder OF his Hfe
according to q statement issued py
him today to the promotion OF prin-
ciples Of civic righteousness and In
dustrial integrity which underlie the
pure food and drugs act, in the hope
that It may be administered in the in
terest Of the people at large instead OF
that of a comparatively few mercen-
ary manufacturers and dealers"
A suspension of work of 10000
miners in the anthracite region on
April l can only be prevented by a
compromise, but neither the coal ope-
rators nor the miners have the slight
est intention Of receding from their
position. The miners have declined to
modify their demands for a 20 per
cent increase in wages, an eight-hour
work day, recognition Of the union
and other conditions and the opera
tors made q counter proposition that
might pave the way for a compromise:
Members Of the anthracite miners
conferred Saturday on a statement
given out by the operators that 1t was
impossible to advance wages unless
n
from the sale Of coal produced sum
equal to the increase In wages. Should
neither side recede from its present
position the mine workers in the hard
coal region will, on the expiration OF
present working agreement on March
81, lay down their tools and suspend
work until an agreement Is reached.
1t Is within the power Of the policy
committee at their meeting on March
25 in Cleveland to call a strike in both
the coal regions, should the bitumin-
Gus men and their employers fail to
reach an agreement next Wednesday.
There was a recurrence last
Saturday Of New York'S recent cpl
demic Of holdups when thugs attack
ed q girl messenger at the door or a
Bowery bank and assaulted and rob-
bed a jeweler Of $1,000 on Harlem
by desperate fights between the al
legged robbers and the police, which
resulted in five arrests. Disguised as
push cart men and street cleaners a
score Of detectives saw four men seize
Miss Ella c. Nichol, messenger for
supply concern, as she was leaving
the Germania bank with $9S pay
roll in her muff. The money was
wrenched from her grasp and the
robbers fled. The men were quickly
cornered and surrendered after hand
to hand fights with the detectives.
Two Of the men, one of whom had the
money In his possession. have criminal
records, the police say. The victim
Of the other robbery was G. de Luca,
an itinerant jeweler. who was fol-
lowed by four men to the roof OF an
apartment house on East 120th street,
while on his way to an adjoining
apartment house. After savagely
beating him and robbing him of a
satchel containing $1,000 worth of
jewelry they dashed down to the
street. The man with the satchel fed,
but was seen by Policeman Quaine,
who chased him to the roof. The
two fought desperately, but the rob-
Der was finally subdued with night
stick. All the jewels were recovered.
Havana March 16: Under lowering
skies and in a heavy tumbling sea, the
old battleship Maine, resurrected after
fourteen years burial in Havana har-
Dor today plunged with her colors fly
ing to her everlasting rest 900 fathoms
deep in the sapphire water of the gulf.
The sinking of the hull was carried out
precisely as planned, marking the end
ing Of the great work begun more than
a year ago. After imposing ceremonies
in the morning which ended with the
formal transfer Of the custody OF the
bodies Of the heroic dead by the may
or Of Havana, Julio de Cardenas, to
Brigadier Bixby, chief OF the engineer
corps, as the representative OF the
United States, the coffins were taken
aboard the armored cruiser North Car
olina and deposited on the quarter
deck, completely covered by a great
mound of floral tributes. under guard
Of honor composed of marines. Min
ute guns were fired by the North Caro-
lima and the scout cruiser Birming-
ham and the batteries of the fortress
until the ships cleared the harbor at
shortly after 2 o'clock. At 4.30 o'clock
the three mile limit was reached and
at 5 o'clock the sea valves of the Maine
were opened. For ten minutes no
change was visible in the trim of the
great rusty, battered nulk, which pltcn-
ed heavily as the huge rollers struck
her. Then she was seen to be sinking
at the bulkhead end. Soon the waves
began to wash over her deck. AS she
remained pitching and wallowing,
each moment settling deeper and deep
er, the stern was seen to rise. In few
seconds the hulk was almost vertical
showing first the propellers and then
the hull keel. The next moment there
was a flash of Olue and white, as the
great ensign flying from the mast
struck the waves and disappeared. ST.
multaneously the decks were blown UP
by the air pressure and with incredi-
BILE velocity the Maine plunged down
leaving no trace save flowers tossing
on the surface of the sea-
London, March 16: The failure OF
the conference between the striking
British miners and mine owners which
have been proceeding for several days
under the presidency Of Premier AS
quith to reach a settlement of the coal
strike has brought Great Britain to
the realization of the serious position
of other industries beside the one di-
rectly affected. In many places the
manufacturers have only kept their
works going by extraordinary efforts
They will now no longer be able to
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