Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-15


discovered ten million practically
worthless documents accumulated IN
Washington within seventeen years
and he believes that the actual loss
due to defective methods OF distribute
ing public documents had cost not less
than s25.OO0,O00 in seventeen years.
He said that not even the presidents
of the United States have had sucn
discretionary power except lit war
emergencies as public printers nave
had in expending for printing ma
chinery and material more than w.
600, 900 in one year without ap-
nroval or advice of any government
officer. Senator Smoot said that the
committee which so far has cost the
government less than $35. 1000, had Ell
fected a saving of several million dol
lars and he estimated 100000 annu-
al saving in further economies, besides
stopping the sending Of prints or MIL
lions of useless publications through
the mails. The bill he advocated
would effect a permanent organization
for the government printing office.
Atlanta, March IA: With the lower
part of his body pronounced already
dead, Eugene H. Grace, whose spinaI
cord is severed by a bullet alleged Dy
Grace to have been fired by his wire,
is expected to die within the next "a
hours. according to his physicians to-
night. Grace is said to be facing
death with stoical nerve. He contln-
ues to insist that his wife shot him.
Although Grace last night made an
ante-mortem statement to his attor
news and members of his family, Chief
of Detectives landlord stated tonight
that the dying man will be asked to
make another to the officers OF the
law. In his story to his lawyers Grace
is declared to have told in detail how
his wife shot him; that she remained
with him several hours after he was
shot; that he pleaded for doctor and
then begged for water. The attorneys
decline to give out the statement for
publication. Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace
spent a sorrowful day in her cell In
the county Jail as a result of the news
Of her husbands condition. oh, why
don't they operate on him." she Is SAID
to have exclaimed when informed OF
the doctors decision that an operation
would be useless. Luther q. Rosser,
we'll known criminal lawyer, today was
added to the counsel for Mrs. Grace
ard with Attorneys John w. Moore
anI ]. A. Branch held conference
with the prisoner late today. They de-
clined to discuss the case after the
conference.
- Expressed reluctance to vote the
death penalty for woman under any
circumstances caused talesman after
talesman to be excused from serving
in the case Of Annie Crawford, who
went on trial last Wednesday in the
New Orleans criminal district court
upon a charge Of numbering her sis
ter, Ellie, whom she is alleged to have
poisoned while nursing her during an
illness last September. Heavily veiled
and wearing deep mourning, the
Crawford woman, who is about twen-
ty-five years of age, took her place in
the court room. She kept her features
concealed beneath the folds OF the veil
as the attorneys for the state asked
each talesman whether or not he had
scruples against the imposition of the
death penalty. Examination of six
talesmen finally resulted in one mans
acceptance as a juror. The charge
against Annie Crawford. grew out of
the discovery that her sister Elize died
of morphine poisoning following close
ly the deaths Of Annie Crawford's
mother, father and another sister un-
der mysterious circumstances. AL
though suspected of the murder of her
other relatives, the Crawford woman
is only charged with her sisters
murder. The state will endeavor to
prove that her motive in causing her
sisters death was to collect insurance
money. The state will also attempt to
prove that the defendant collected in
surance money on the lives of her
father, mother and sister Mary.
Gen. Ishung Yuan, who under the
emperor held the post of governor OF
the province of Shen 81, says a Pek-
In Of Wn1nncdov 10 rnor O.
at the head Of 10000 troops from <fle
province of Kan Su to Feking. to re-
store the emperor to the throne. 1t
would seem that there is no govern
ment force present or prospective
capable of terminating the prevalent
anarchy. There is little hope among
the legations that the coalition gov
ernment will be successful in ending
the mutinous pillaging which is now
sweeping over the north. One min
lister said today that it must burn itself
out like a prairie fire. 1t is the gen.
eral belief that order cannot be re-
stored within two years. The break
ing up of the country by secessions, is
considered not merely possibility.
There are now not less than six hos
tile armies in the field. These COM
prise the northern and southern arm
les, which the present disorders show
are not agreeable to the forced COM
promise that their leaders are now
negotiating; the Manchu troops,
which remain distinct body apart
from the others; the Mongols, who in
large bands are fighting the Chinese
garrisons in the north Gen. Sheng
Yun's army, composed largely of Ma
hammadans, and in the province of
Yum Nan an army of Independents
Gen. Sheng Yun'S exact position is
not known, but according to a mis-
sionary letter recently received from
Sian Flu, his followers are decimat-
ing population and wiping out whole
districts. Consular reports from Nan
king state the army is in control of a
part of the three provinces and that
up to the present 1t has confined itself
largely to outlawry. The diplomatic
corps in Peking are pessimistic be-
cause of the apparent feebleness of
the Chinese administrators and dis
ciplinarians.
A gang Of mountain outlaws rode
into the town of Hillsville, the county
seat of Carroll county, Va, yesterday,
trooped into the court house and as
the judge was pronouncing sentence on
one of their number, commenced firing
on the officers of the court behind the
bar Sheriff and deputies answered
the shots gamely; but when the battle
was over Judge Thornton T. Massie,
Solicitor William Foster and Sheriff
Lewis Webb had been killed. The
clerk Of the court, three of the jurors
and several bystanders were more or
less seriously wounded. Floyd Allen
had been tried on the charge of taking
a prisoner from deputy sheriff. He
had knocked the deputy over the head
with the butt of his rifle, and allowed
the prisoner to escape. Allen was af
terward arrested, but his brothers. Sid
ney and Jack, swOre that he should
never go to prison. Just as Allen was
about to be called up for sentence, Sid
ney and Jack came into the court room
followed by a troop of about twenty
mountaineers, armed with rifles and
revolvers. The men took their places
inside the front door of the court room
opposite the judge. There had been
nothing said, but everybody realized
that the situation was tense. Judge
Massie mounted his bench and the
prisoner, a man of about 80 years. was
told to stand up. After all the legal